It cannot be a viable male public strategy for poor developing countries to become richer. Many aspects of life in developing countries that are favorable for men are tied precisely to the fact that these countries are poor.
Luckily, local elites in many developing countries are not very interested in the common good, and are more interested in their own benefits.
Luckily, too, rich people in Western countries are usually not interested in creating wealth, by means of foreign investment, in developing countries.
Most foreign investment in developing countries is temporary and geared solely toward profit-taking. It is not a form of long-term asset creation or even long-term asset management. As practically all profits are repatriated (to be consumed somewhere else), such foreign investment does not create wealth in developing countries. And the little wealth that initially seems to be created in the developing country will eventually be moved to developed countries when wealthy locals emigrate.
All foreign investment that finances the exploitation of natural resources in developing countries is likely to be a net drain on a developing country’s wealth. Capital that is brought into a developing country to exploit natural resources for export is not wealth. This capital merely finances tools which, after a short while, are only of scrap value.
The only certain case of a transfer of wealth from one country to another is the migration of wealthy people. And that trend does not point in the direction of developing countries, but the opposite way.
Wealthy locals in many developing countries are typically busy transferring their own wealth to developed nations.
The super-rich from developing countries bring the money they made in the West back to the West.
http://money.guardian.co.uk/tax/story/0,,1755287,00.html
The rich getting even richer in the developing world.
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1802373,00.html
Most children of the very wealthy in most developing countries attend private schools in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, the US, or Switzerland.
International students boost Scottish economy by £312m.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-32919517
Selling education to overseas students has become a major industry in New Zealand.
http://archived.ccc.govt.nz/cityscene/2003/November/ALessonForEducationSector.asp
Often, these children of developing-world elites eventually become permanent residents, or citizens, in those rich countries. Any citizen of a developing country who has amassed a substantial fortune can easily apply for a residence permit in most developed nations through investment pathways.
Pathways to permanent residency through investment typically require substantial capital, often exceeding $1 million USD, in countries such as the US, Canada, and Australia.
The fact that wealthy locals transfer wealth back to the US and Europe prolongs much of Africa's and the developing world's poverty. And this will not change by allowing developing countries better access to markets in developed countries. While such access may cause a larger number of traders in developing countries to become rich, these traders will likely bring their wealth back to developed countries once they emigrate to one of them.
Thus, the much-touted policies of better market access for products from developing countries will ultimately create wealth in developed countries (the emigration destinations of wealthy locals from developing countries), and not in the developing countries themselves.
Traditionally, developing countries could offer their local elites a degree of independence from the law. In many developing countries, rich people could do pretty much whatever they wanted. That is a genuine aspect of quality of life. And it is waiting to be sold to rich people from North America and Western Europe.
International NGOs claim that curtailing the privileges of local elites (eradicating corruption) will help a country's economic development, thus creating wealth.
It will not. It will only cause the local elites to leave and take their wealth to Europe or North America.