You are right, most of people living in western countries always like to blame that government in poorer countries.
They are poor because government corrupts, because no democracy and bla bla bla…
Well, very country has corruption, it depends how much… I am in Australia; I know quite well how westerners view our country (Asian countries). If the country that they don’t like they will just pick up all the bad things and mention that again and again. For example, Chinese government blog facebook and some other websites of google, people in whole world particularly those in western come up and bla bla bla. But some Asian countries that they like, they block all news and about 100 people got killed, western countries particularly America zip up its mount. Burma had an election lately, Obama open his un-brushed teeth again. The same way, some Lao people who are living in other countries are also trying to blame that Lao government is using insufficient budget like this because we are poor. However, there are plenty of Lao people living other countries but love Laos and support government to develop our nation.