Our role in Haiti's plight | Peter Hallward | Comment is free | The Guardian
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/13/our-role-in-haitis-plight
Haiti is now a country where, according to the best available study, around 75% of the population "lives on less than $2 per day, and 56% – four and a half million people – live on less than $1 per day". It is this poverty and powerlessness that account for the full scale of the horror in Port-au-Prince today. Since the late 1970s, relentless neoliberal assault on Haiti's agrarian economy has forced tens of thousands of small farmers into overcrowded urban slums.
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