22382: Hess: Re: 22358: Harvey Re: 22352: Vilaire: On the Grupo M Debacle (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Dougrhess2@aol.com

And what's the alternative? Subsistence farming?  Haiti doesn't have the
infrastructure or security right now for better  paying, high tech factory
jobs like they have in Costa Rica.
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One issue here is that international institutions have promoted  low-wage
jobs to the detriment of investing in any kind of agriculture or other  kinds of
development. No doubt factory jobs are a part of Haiti's future  economic
development, but ignoring everything else that can be done (is being  done without
the big institutions and nations major support) is the problem: it  makes
factory jobs seem like the only game available. This topic was  covered well
along time ago in the book "Aiding Migration" by Josh DeWind,  Westview Press
(1988) ASIN: 0813374146.


-Doug Hess