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**lionsiy** · 08-10-2010, 08:07 PM

cutting import tariffs is a good thing - haiti needs to be able to compete on the open world market.

the USA is entirely at fault by subsidizing its rice growers and destroying the haitian market.

this is the right kind of giving back: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/bu...hosla.html?hpw

I think it a bit naive to think that Haiti is going to be able to compete with agro business....

Joseph Steiglitz, Nobel winner and former World Bank official.. does argue that the developing world looses about 6 times the amount spent on "foreign aid" from subsidies and protective tarriffs in the developed world.

08-10-2010, 08:07 PM	#6
lionsiy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 565 Senior Member	cutting import tariffs is a good thing - haiti needs to be able to compete on the open world market. the USA is entirely at fault by subsidizing its rice growers and destroying the haitian market. this is the right kind of giving back: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/bu...hosla.html?hpw I think it a bit naive to think that Haiti is going to be able to compete with agro business.... Joseph Steiglitz, Nobel winner and former World Bank official.. does argue that the developing world looses about 6 times the amount spent on "foreign aid" from subsidies and protective tarriffs in the developed world.
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