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I am, however, still in Arizona.
Where have I seen that photo before?
Same scenes one can see in Mumbai,Kolkatta etc.
Not bad enought for me, since economics still works, for sure it’s could not compared to your’s ideals.
Yours 2USD/days is not their 2USD/days.
Yours 3% inflattion could kill you but their 1000%inflation have nothings worth for them.
That is relativity theory of Happines.
I think this needs to be explained by a nice new-Keynesian growth model.
cost(labor) < cost(capital)
Not sure, but I think that dolly was crafted from the rear half of a pickup truck.
Well, one thing you can say for Haiti is that nothing – however old, battered and useless it might seem – is wasted. A few of my own pictures of Port-au-Prince (and Haiti in general) are here: http://picasaweb.google.com/rob.fuller1/AyitiCheri
In particular, this is a nice depiction of what many Haitian people see as the source of their problems:
http://picasaweb.google.com/rob.fuller1/AyitiCheri/photo#4941399749853970450
This is definitely moderate poverty. You can tell by the prevalence of goods manufactured overseas: tin roofs, car bodies, steel parts, rubber tires.
Deep poverty has none of these things. The only goods available to those in deep poverty is what they make themselves by hand. They live in grass and wood huts with thatch roofs, similar to what rich people expect to see on a private carribean beach. In contrast, the homes of those in moderate poverty look like poorly built tree houses, junk nailed together hap-hazardly.
Wasn’t Megan McArdle’s point about “deep poverty” in the economy as a whole being picturesque? On that basis, Haiti definitely qualifies: it still has a lot of elegant (but decaying) colonial architecture because nothing has been built to replace it, pristine beaches that haven’t been developed, and so on.
But anyway, yes, people in the countryside in Haiti are certainly poorer on average than those in the city. According to the most recent reliable household survey, 67% in the countryside are living on less than $1 a day, compared to 23% in the capital.
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