Indeed, those experts and consultants are very good at making reports forecasting futures of developing countrie, using expected ratios; population growth rate, water- use, etc.
Well, these studies are needed for good planning of development, which is very reasonable, however, if so, most of scenarios of the developing countries can be very pessimistic.
So, the developed does, like a demanding foretune-teller, just point out this pessimistic and apocalyptic future of the developing ?