What’s the benefit to institutions like the European Union of having poorer states join?

Question

How do less economically wealthy states help institutions like the European Union and why are they needed?

Edit: apologise for the awfully written title

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Answer 1

I have no inside knowledge about this, but I learned more about it than I ever knew from Youtubes by Mark Blyth, a former Scotsman and now political economist at Brown University. That’s where I would go first.