Challenges in Detroit's Recovery Similar to those in the Third World?

[63alfred]

Many of the problems in bringing Detroit out of its current state deal with the local population admitting these problems to themselves and making communal commitments and sacrifices to change them. As with Third World countries Westerners are seemingly always trying to "fix" lasting solutions can only be found and successfully implemented by the local population itself. If we cannot do this in one of our own American cities what makes us think we can do it anywhere else in the world?