Declining Western Development Hinges on Human Suffering: Developing Countries Cautioned From Copying The Entire Model Declining Western Development Hinges on Human Suffering: Developing Countries Cautioned From Copying The Entire Model Developing countries are not developing in a vacuum. Their development is informed by what they have seen in the so called developed world. The leaders in these countries think of development as erection of concrete, steel and glass structures but few investigate the corresponding quality of life or the lack thereof that has been imposed upon populations in the world they want to belong to; whose deficient model they are increasingly copy-pasting.