And other better-off countries could join them.
Surprisingly, Africa's poorest countries have less unemployed youth than the better-off countries.
This is why market access matters so much: the ability to sell goods to better-off countries.
EVEN in central Europe's better-off countries, GDP per head is much less than half that in the European Union.
Yet sweatshops usually go not to the poorest nations but to better-off countries with more reliable electricity and ports.
"I also wonder if, in better-off countries, which OECD countries are, we don't have time to be depressed and seek chemical solutions to 'get rid of it'".
There have been whispers that Europe's better-off countries France, Germany and the Netherlands among them might come to the rescue with a bailout.
Directing aid from middle-income countries demonstrates a misunderstanding about the role it can play in big and increasingly better-off countries.
Public-health systems are another: in better-off countries these did far more to reduce the effects of malaria in the 20th century than warming did to worsen them.
These countries hope aid can play a catalytic role so CDC's decision to exclude investment from slightly better-off countries, such as those in Latin America, is probably wrong.
Its spokeswoman, Ruth Porter, said: "Fairtrade tends to help producers in better-off countries when there are many in poorer countries who deserve to be helped, but who cannot afford to meet the many conditions required for certification.
