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A country's economic fortunes can change hugely over the course of centuries or even just a few decades. In fact, many nations that are considered poor or middle-income these days were once among the most affluent in the world.
Read on to discover the countries that have gone from riches to rags and find out why their fortunes faltered.
All dollar amounts in US dollars.
Daniel Coughlin
18 April 2024
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How do you compare Egypt of today and the ancient one? Don't you think that shows you are lacking on many grounds? The biblical history tells us about rich Kings like Solomon, the Ethiopian Zera etc and kingdoms that ever lived, why were they not included. Even Ethiopia, Congo, Babylon we're at one time prosperas.
I was reading about countries I know nothing about and was following through with the information while trying to appreciate the effort that you did. However, when I reached the part where you talk about Iraq's downfall, I was disappointed but not surprised that you didn't mention anything about the United State's intervention in the oil-rich country and how George Bush's government also led to the downfall of the then-economically stable country. And honestly, I did not have the will to read about the remaining countries seeing as I would like my knowledge to remain unperturbed by such subjective information. I wonder which other country's economy was devastated because of foreign intervention, with you failing to mention it. p.s. people who lack objective professionalism should not be able to post on such information platforms.
It is very unfortunate to see sharing an unbearably wrong information about India in such a popular website. India was far more richer even before Mughals were in India. They even came to India and invaded due its richness and loot the same. Seems the article says Mughals invaded India to make it richer... Ha..ha...ha...LOL... :):)
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