Quote Originally Posted by TallGuyLittleCar
how have the forced local farmers to grow cash crops? Does hte world bank and other finance bodies have militaries deployed to these areas. Are they napalming disobedient villages?

Or are the merely expecting these people to have a plan to pay back the money they borrow?
They pay them to grow cash crops. Very simple. If they don't grow cash crops but rather for the local community demand they don't pay them. Pretty simple really, and it's not actually that easy to say no to money when it's being offered to you and you don't have any, despite your capacity to grow food for yourself and your community. 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.
it turns out technology is cheaper than the cheapest human.
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.