Friday, January 15, 2010

David Brooks Wants to Know Why Haiti is Poor

 
 

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via (title unknown) by Alanna Shaikh on 1/15/10

David Brooks starts out strong in an NYT article asking why Haiti is so poor. Unfortunately, things go downhill rapidly.

David Brooks starts out strong in a New York Times editorial asking why Haiti is so poor. He makes the very good point that development economics has remarkably few consistent ideas on how to bring about growth. Unfortunately, things take a turn for the worse a couple of paragraphs later. He ends the piece blaming voodoo and Haitian culture for the nation's ongoing poverty and his recommendation for change is "paternalism."

 


 
 

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