Monday, December 10, 2007
While international donors have praised Haiti's recent economic improvements, some Haitians say President Rene Preval's government has not done enough to lower prices in the impoverished country where three-quarters of the population lives on less than $2 a day.
Josue Bellerive, a street sweeper in the downtown area of Port-au-Prince said that "The population is dying of hunger and nobody seems to care," Further she stated that "The government should simply limit the exaggerated profit made by shopkeepers." Haiti is the Western Hemisphere's poorest country with an annual per capita income of about $450, according to the World Bank.
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