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I Mastered Dead Technology
 Originally Posted by TheOriginalFlashDavo
They pay them to grow cash crops.
how forceful.
The World Bank's view is that the way out of "poverty" is to grow crops that people from overseas will buy. I'm just not sure it's as straightforward an equation as that, and if you look into the collapse of some of the cash crop industries in Kenya and some other places, you can see the very real long term damage this policy can do.
I think blaming that policy alone is rather short sighted.. perhaps the local governments are a we bit corrupt.
Actually, hereabouts, the exact opposite is true. Hence why there is less investment in technology, labour is just so cheap. They just resurfaced the road out the front of our place, how it was done was a wonder to behold.
I was talking in terms of trade. Basically how it would be cheaper for me to buy a tractor in the united states then to hire a bunch of farmers in kenya then have the stuff shipped over to me
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Originally Posted by TheOriginalFlashDavo
They pay them to grow cash crops.
Originally Posted by TallGuyLittleCar
how forceful.
It's amazing how powerful a dollar can be, if that is the only thing keeping your family alive through to the next day.
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I Mastered Dead Technology
Originally Posted by david petley
It's amazing how powerful a dollar can be, if that is the only thing keeping your family alive through to the next day.
david
in this circumstance the farmers already had a roof over their head and food on the table. I imagine the money from the west was wanted by the farmers so they could be western products and such.
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Originally Posted by TallGuyLittleCar
in this circumstance the farmers already had a roof over their head and food on the table. I imagine the money from the west was wanted by the farmers so they could be western products and such.
Not directed at any of your other comments, but with this one, you're really showing you have no idea at all.
So where exactly have you gleaned this gem of information about farmers being paid to switch to cash crops is because they have an abundance of money to buy "western" products (the majority of which are not even made in the west)?
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