Even reconstruction efforts, when handled by the IMF / WB, wind up being subcontracted to (mostly) American businesses, cutting out the locals not only from wages but also from any sense of control over teh reconstructions of their devasted nations.
And going off - topic myself, many thanks to you and your co-authors for the intelligence to work out what was wrong in the Steig
reconstruction, the
effort to improve upon it and expand the understanding of the methods, and
even more for the perseverance to see the article through into publication.