AHC: Colonial power economically develops non-settler colonies

In our timeline there was a big myth of the "White Man's Burden" to improve the lot of native peoples. However, empires generally did not run this way in practice, typically running the place for the benefit of the metropole. What would be needed for a colonial power to genuinely seek to improve the indigenous people's livelihoods across its empire? I was thinking maybe a change in mindset at the beginning of colonization due to people like Edmund Burke getting in power.
 
Well Germany did do this to varying extents in some (but not all) of its African colonies, especially Togoland, but this was more for economic reasons than pure altruism.

The best way I think would be to get those in charge to realize that developing infrastructure and educating the populace would ultimately be alot more profitable than just doing what they did IOTL.
 
Have a British Empire which remains based around a mixed settler colony/company axis. As India proved, the smaller company administrators can be more willing to marry into local elites (this may be less the case in Africa, but is certainly not impossible given that there's probably been a noticable shift in attitude at home to create this). Then to deal with falling trade revenue the companies decide to branch out into other area, including industry and eventually jobs requiring technical skills.

The colonies will still undoubtedly lag behind and take the cheapest option rather than what's necessarily the best one, but all it really takes is a handful of entrepreneurs to look at the mills of the north of England, and come to the conclusion that they can make a killing by using the larger labour force in India closer to the sources of cotton production, and undercut Liverpool or Manchester with the finished good. It's still a pretty exploitative mindset, but the difference is this one is exploitative in the same way that the attitude towards the poor in Britain is exploitative, and so has a reasonable chance of following a similar, albeit delayed, course of industrial development followed by some degree of social reform.
 
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