Going back to my experience in travelling in these very poor developing countries, there's one thing that struck me over and over.
I haven't counted them up, but I've done somewhere between 80 to 100 trips in the last 15 or 20 years to these countries, and the lineups outside the Canadian and the American embassies for visas to emigrate are 10 times longer than those outside any other embassy of the embassies I see. I am always teaching in capital cities, such as Sofia, Bulgaria, and Bucharest, and Kiev, and the lineups are vastly longer.
People see these two countries and for whatever reason...we could say they are uninformed, except that they have relatives who tell them what's going on here.