Here's something that should intuitively be obvious, but we don't really think much about it. This is the distribution of wealth among nations, and we can see the wealthier nations are disproportionally way better than the rest of the world.
This is a fact, and if we consider that, then there really are only three options regarding development:
a) either the wealth of the first world shrinks and in some future the world has a straighter width between nations.
b) or the third world's wealth explodes while the first world remains stagnant comparatively to the third.
c) or things just remain the same.
Now, virtually all, even the most right wing ideologues will argue that their ideology is the best of all possible options to bring people up from terrible living conditions. Thus there are very few who will argue the third option is one they actively champion.
With this knowledge, what exactly is your opinion or even more, what do you think other people - politicians, pundits, government figures, philosophers, whatever - are really trying to accomplish in the long run regarding the economic development in the world with this unequal distribution in mind?
It seems one way or another the first world has to lose for the world to win.