This is Known as Bad Luck

From Instapundit, a quote from Heinlein applied to Pakistan:
   Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”                 Posted 8:27 a.m.  Glenn Reynolds