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Haiti's 200 years of wasted hopes

Date: December 6, 2003
Author: John Pickford
QUOTE: Today in Haiti the cupboard is bare. Half the population is malnourished. It has been said that Haitians lack everything but imagination.

ABSTRACT: Once one France’s most prosperous colonies in the Western Hemisphere, modern-day Haiti suffers from the lowest standard of living in the region. Following years of dictatorship, economic mismanagement and corruption seventy percent of the country’s workforce remains unemployed, with the vast majority relying on subsistence farming for survival. This article is a short piece by a BBC journalist giving his personal impressions and comments from ordinary people he interviewed.

--- oleg yatskar

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