Could ‘Pooristan’ help solve the poverty gap?
In the latest issue of Good Magazine, Reihan Salam puts forward an interesting argument that the world’s poorest countries should unite to form a new world power that will help them all - what he dubs ‘Pooristan’:
Like the Roman and British Empires before it, Pooristan would constitute a vast zone of free trade and migration that would eventually give rise to a polyglot culture. Just as London gathers the world’s most impressive financial minds and Silicon Valley attracts extraordinary tech talent, sprawling cities like Lagos, Nigeria, and Dhaka, Bangladesh, would be transformed by the influx of talented “foreigners”—fellow Pooristanis—searching for opportunity.
Salam references Lant Pritchett’s thought-provoking book on immigration, Let Their People Come. It’s an intriguing idea, even if he admits it will never happen in our lifetimes.
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