After earthquake A&S professor examines Haiti's history of poverty

By James Williams, Discovery News

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, which makes the devastation caused by yesterday’s earthquake that much harder on an already struggling nation. As death toll estimates continue to rise and other nations flood in to provide aid, we wondered how this small country came to be so poverty-stricken.

Our answer came from Bryan Page, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Miami...

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January 15, 2010