Quote 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