There's no free healthcare... Families are bankrupted by sickness in the family.

If anyone did the "lifting", it's the global markets with their conditional entry into the WTO. Almost all the conditions are still not met and reneged on.

It’s possible to simultaneously drive economic development, lift a populace out of poverty, and not construct an authoritarian regime.

See also: Western Democracy.

Remind me again which government was responsible for the deadliest famine in human history?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127087/