Aid or paychecks for Haiti?
Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 10:20PM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

OP-ED: Some Frank Talk About Haiti, By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, New York Times, January 20, 2010

Interesting for the citation of Paul Collier's report to the UN that the best step forward, developmentally, in Haiti would be to set up a garment industry--meaning, in cruder terms, sweatshops.

Ah, but that would be "shock capitalism" of the Naomi Klein sort, would it not?

Better to flood the place with aid instead of paychecks.

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