The story of his suffering and death has been told and retold in my family for four generations. In 1963, my parents took me to visit my grandparents' villages which were desperately poor. Thirty years later I returned with my wife and children to see the same villages, now prosperous and charming, which were exporting their agricultural surpluses to the European Union. Free trade, agricultural and rural investment had created a miracle in three decades. Greece will not see a famine again because it has entered the ranks of first world countries.
Foreign assistance does work, but it takes years of investment and hard work.
Things are going to change.