I strongly believe that to improve a country you need educated citizens
True, but you also need cooperative authorities willing to give their educated citizens the leeway to prosper. That’s the real bottleneck here; plenty of developing countries have accessible higher education. If you want the EU to help developing countries develop, you should start from neocolonialism. Many of the regimes holding back developing countries are basically running on foreign dollars and euros.
Again, that is already present in plenty of (unsure if most) developing countries, and the ones where it isn’t aren’t common sources of brain drain. There’s a reason the West tends to import Indians and Iranians rather than, say, Congolese; the majority of educated people from any country will stay there, either because they don’t want to leave or because they can’t find an opportunity to do so. This is simply not the bottleneck holding back the Global South; education is one of the few things a developing country can do more of with minimal effort.
True, but you also need cooperative authorities willing to give their educated citizens the leeway to prosper. That’s the real bottleneck here; plenty of developing countries have accessible higher education. If you want the EU to help developing countries develop, you should start from neocolonialism. Many of the regimes holding back developing countries are basically running on foreign dollars and euros.
Education is a precursor to that.
Again, that is already present in plenty of (unsure if most) developing countries, and the ones where it isn’t aren’t common sources of brain drain. There’s a reason the West tends to import Indians and Iranians rather than, say, Congolese; the majority of educated people from any country will stay there, either because they don’t want to leave or because they can’t find an opportunity to do so. This is simply not the bottleneck holding back the Global South; education is one of the few things a developing country can do more of with minimal effort.