Does the west have a responsibility to end poverty in developing nations?

You often hear criticisms of western countries, especially my home country the US, for not doing enough to end poverty in developing countries. So I guess my own question is does the US and other rich nations have a responsibility to end poverty in developing nations?

My own view is that developing nations don't rise out of poverty because of foreign aid but because of reforming their economies to attract international investment which creates jobs and ends poverty. I don't think there has ever been a nation which was once poor but upon receiving western aid removed millions of people out of poverty.

I don't think sending money and food will help much in the long run, the single largest problem poor developing countries have is lack of education. Take Africa as an example, an extremely rich continent (not in money, but in resources obviously). But almost completely uneducated, as a corrupt leader it's probably not very difficult to keep a bunch of dumb people oppressed.

This situation is Europes fault. We had all these rich, educated nations that came in an colonized Africa. They ran the countries and abused it's people, then all of a sudden they just disappeared and left these countries. Now we've got all these uneducated people who all of a sudden have to take care of the country themselves.

tl;dr help developing countries by educating them so they can in turn help themselves.

I don't think sending money and food will help much in the long run, the single largest problem poor developing countries have is lack of education. Take Africa as an example, an extremely rich continent (not in money, but in resources obviously). But almost completely uneducated, as a corrupt leader it's probably not very difficult to keep a bunch of dumb people oppressed.

This situation is Europes fault. We had all these rich, educated nations that came in an colonized Africa. They ran the countries and abused it's people, then all of a sudden they just disappeared and left these countries. Now we've got all these uneducated people who all of a sudden have to take care of the country themselves.

tl;dr help developing countries by educating them so they can in turn help themselves.

Look up brain drain.

Africans aren't too stupid to realise they are being oppressed, neither are they too stupid to prevent it. You could take the smartest man in the world, take all his positions and throw him in an essentially barren land and point a gun at him. Despite all his smarts, that man can't do anything, the situation is outside of his control.

What Africa needs is jobs. Just as China and India have grown by doing all the jobs Westerners don't want to, Africa will develop if everyone has jobs (other than subsistence farming).