which is really a stupid assumption because it relies on a complete lack of imagination. why are these countries low-income? are they actually self-deficient or is it a result of global development policies that rely on paralysed or misdirected productivity in the third world, in order to ensure their status on the periphery of the Washington Consensus-dominated world market? is it possible that outside conditions (including psychologically-induced effects) have prevented these countries from producing as much as they could have?

governments can literally print money (in fact, one way of defining the state is via its legitimacy in doing so) and the fact that they don't is less an indication of its feasibility, and more a call to question the structural adjustment policies that prevent these countries from lessening their dependence on outsiders