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Thread #86416 Message #2438024
Posted By: Amos
12-Sep-08 - 01:49 AM
Thread Name: BS: KatrinaGate
Subject: RE: BS: KatrinaGate...
Here ya go, weisenheimer:
http://www.fsmitha.com/world/haiti.htm, which I found in thirteen seconds, states concerning Haiti:
Wealth Distribution
One percent of the populations owns nearly half of the nation's wealth. The elite live a half-hour's drive from Port-au-Prince, in the mountain suburb of PĂ©tionville, where it is cooler and, according to Jared Diamond, they are "enjoying expensive French restaurants and fine wines."
Female to male income rate: 52:100 (from Foreign Policy magazine.
Quality of Life
Ranks next to last, 110, in the Economist Magazine's 2005 Quality-of-Life index.
Female literacy rate (published in 2008): 57 percent.
SOURCES:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php