Matthew Yglesias

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In 1960, the Dominican Republic was about as poor as Haiti but then it diverged first slowly and then quickly. Bangladesh and Cambodia were as poor as Haiti twenty years ago but they've started to pull up. https://t.co/6kgp6Vc2HN — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 21, 2022 Hibernated

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This is a wonderful article about the historical exploitation of Haiti by its former colonizers, but I'm skeptical this fully explains Haiti's *current* poverty. https://t.co/74rSSYCF7M — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 21, 2022 Hibernated

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Economic development is really hard and lots of countries have, for most of history, failed to achieve it. But then sometimes the stars align and they pull it off — even with awful things in their past. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 21, 2022 Hibernated