Santo Domingo. - Countries with high corruption also have extreme poverty, as some groups monopolize the nation’s wealth, said the World Bank chief economist for Latin America, Augusto de la Torre, in an analysis of the world’s current situation
He said the ego and excesses of a few has intensified the crisis even more.
However de la Torre said the process leading to the so-called “global crisis” is an example that the countries are interconnected and has repercussions between nations, due to the decisions taken to solve individual problems.
He said the entity to which he belongs has assumed the motto “a world without poverty,” promoting dialogues, and providing consultations and studies to nations that demand them.
The official, speaking Wednesday morning on the new the World Bank study for the Caribbean: “Development with Less Carbon” in the Telesistema Channel 11 program, said the report seeks to create awareness on the Caribbean situation, as one of the region most susceptible to the climatic change, and to motivate citizens to demand that their governors assume it as public policy.
As an example the economist cited a study which predicts the disappearance of some corals in about 15 to 20 years from the impact of climatic change, jeopardizing tourism and the economy on a large scale.
Written by: juanb, 10 Jun 2009 11:30 AM
From: Dominican Republic
We have'em both, poverty and corruption.
Written by: ateo1992, 10 Jun 2009 12:25 PM
From: Dominican Republic
climate change in not man made!
Written by: xwill7, 10 Jun 2009 12:58 PM
From: United States, Chicago
Dominican Republic has it all
From: United States, New York City
“Development with Less Carbon”
An oxymoron if you ask me. All this is deliberate. It's to prevent the poorer nations of the earth from industrializing and using there own raw materials for their own industries and everyone's buying into it line, hook, and sinker.
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
ciby I thought you were a big time greenie now you want to pave everthing !
From: United States, New York City
"ciby I thought you were a big time greenie now you want to pave everthing !"
Why would you assume as much?
Written by: generoso, 10 Jun 2009 2:38 PM
From: United States, Santo Domingo
Good point but kind of hard to admit, without corruption the DR, all of us, could be 40% richer in general, than at present, but we can not accept this fact unless we are open to self criticism and introspection.
Just like when the Spaniards first came over and started to take advantage of the indians by offering them cheap trinkets for gold, we still love flashy things and "bling". The inflated ego of public officials is responsible for much of the corruption frenzy which is rampant in DR. But the worship of the personality by unrepentant sycophants is in the genes of Dominicans too. This mix, together with the lack of transparency and accountability, really is responsible for the many ills that affect us today.
From: Dominican Republic
Welcome back Mr. generous. Have not read your comments lately.
How all of us be 40% richer? explain.
Written by: generoso, 10 Jun 2009 3:03 PM
From: United States, Santo Domingo
Mr. Torquemada:
The concept of separateness of the individual is mistaken. We are all connected one way or
another, to each other, and the environment where we choose to live.
Corruption, pollutes the pool that we all swim together in, and creates many secondary harmful effects that come back to haunt us, individually and collectively. Corruption is the worst crime because it affects the greatest number of people, and writers such as Dante, have condemned the corrupt government officials, to the seventh and most terrible hell.
Since we are all in this together then we all benefit if there was less corruption, as there will be more spendable budgetary income for public works, food, education, health benefits, charity and pensions for the elderly.
Comprende?
From: United States, (on Sabbatical)
World Bank economist links poverty to egos, warns of climatic change
I looked at the headline quickly and thought if the reverse were also true:
"World Bank economist links poverty to climatic change, warns of egos."
Que te parece, Cholito?
No teme enfogones, no te decalientes, no te de un pique!
World Bank economist links poverty to climatic change = In rich countries people have no egos, They are fundamentally passive; they just make movies about killing, and destroying buildings, and bombing, etc.
World Bank economist warns of egos; If you get heated you loose your cool and become poor by un arranque de soberbia and wind up burning your house down killing innocent people and doing time....equals poverty for you and survivors....
These stupid headlines never seems to surprise me....Dumbing down of "catechumen", lumpen, plebeyos.....Proletariados...Meanwhile they laugh about us...Hahaha!
Keep people stupid by feeding them porqueria stories.....BlablaBlah
From: United States, (on Sabbatical)
Here's an IT (insight) term for the proponents of such "BUM DATA":
Garbage in, garbage out!
Get out of her with the bunkum stories....Dreamweaver!
They fly their private jets at whim...Burning millions of gallons of jp4 for fun..Muerto 'e la risa.
You fly like a sardine on an Airbus, then get stuck on a a Hot (no A/C, no ventilation) plane for hours on the runway waiting for them to say the "bus" can finally take-off......Flying coach?.
It's More like shotgun on the pony express...
From: United States
hey , Arsenio: frame it; i'll take it.
Written by: abc200, 10 Jun 2009 11:46 PM
From: United Kingdom
Written by: anthonyC, 11 Jun 2009 11:08 PM
From: United States
Funny how the twit didn't mention the #1 cause of Poverty!!!
SOCIALISM
Any list of the world's poorest countries is a list of either socialist economies or countries trying to recover from socialist policies.
It is a FACT. It cannot be disputed. The only exception is of a nation ravaged by a long war like Columbia.
Don't believe me? Here is a list of countries ranked by poverty.
Pick any of the top 50 and prove me wrong.
Hell, Pick any of the top 100. I don't care. Facts are facts.
Written by: abc200, 12 Jun 2009 9:08 AM
From: United Kingdom
Rich countries with the exception of the US are social democracies often with socialist governments and are mixed economies with a large proportion of the economy run or controlled by the state. Industries tend to alternate between being government owned or privately owned.
e.g. health care, electricity, transport ( trains etc ) social services, some food production in the social sector in France. Basically private industry collapses and need rescuing. Germany is slightly unique in that there is state and worker representation on the supervisory board of every major company. In fact the success of VW etc. has come through special laws giving the state a large say in the running of the company.
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/0....risk-future-tech-and-product-pla/China is emerging rapidly from poverty though a plan and a mixed economy with numerous state owned coprorations and majority shareholdings. The USA only works because the inefficiency of the
Written by: abc200, 12 Jun 2009 9:11 AM
From: United Kingdom
system is compensated for by huge natural resources, exploitation of the rest of the world and desperate conditions for many of its people.
S.
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
Jumbo Twit babbles pathetic rubbish on and on Blah blah
From: United States
it amazes be that one person can be as dumb as AnthonyC, and yet be able to locate the keyboard to a PC. Socialism, he allows us, is the world´s no 1 cause of poverty, the numbskull opines. so, it is the virulent Marxists who have caused Haiti to bethe poorest country in the west. and Malawi and other African states are suffering from the ideologies of Che and Fidel. And, had it not been for their socialist beliefs, Scandinavia would not be languishing in squalor and deprivation. man, AnthonyC posts to prove that human stupidity really knows no limit.
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
he is talking about Comrade Bob in Zimbabwe and North Korea among others
From: United States, New York City
Written by: abc200, 12 Jun 2009 2:38 PM
From: United Kingdom
but does not talk about Malawi where the land is held by platation owners......
Tobacco companies pay the lowest possible price and have made little attempt to control child labour.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/745/38532S.
Written by: abc200, 12 Jun 2009 2:38 PM
From: United Kingdom
but does not talk about Malawi where the land is held by platation owners......
Tobacco companies pay the lowest possible price and have made little attempt to control child labour.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/745/38532S.
Written by: abc200, 12 Jun 2009 9:00 PM
From: United Kingdom
A good mistake perhaps - maybe software - but imbeciles need multiple repetition. The dark side of the moon would be a good place of such as GC.
Money
(Waters) 6:32
Money, get away.
Get a good job with good pay and you're okay.
Money, it's a gas.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team.
Money, get back.
I'm all right Jack keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it's a hit.
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit.
I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet.
Money, it's a crime.
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise it's no surprise that they're
giving none away.
"HuHuh! I was in the right!"
"Yes, absolutely in the right!"
"I certainly was in the right!"
"You was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a
bruising!"
"Yeah!"
"Why d
Written by: abc200, 12 Jun 2009 9:03 PM
From: United Kingdom
does anyone do anything?"
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time!"
"I was just telling him, he couldn't get into number 2. He was asking
why he wasn't coming up on freely, after I was yelling and
screaming and telling him why he wasn't coming up on freely.
It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out"
You the luatic go - I'll stay here...
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/brain-damage-dark-lyrics.htmlS.
S.
Written by: anthonyC, 12 Jun 2009 9:03 PM
From: United States
Malawi is a Socialist republic. So is Haiti
From: United States
The economies of Malawi and Madagascar are roughly similar: small, poor and predominantly agricultural. Over the past century these countries have pursued different strategies of economic development, capitalist in Malawi and socialist in Madagascar.
how about them apples, anthony? or do you disagree with the findings? you are only entitled to your own opinion, not your own facts, for chrissake
Written by: abc200, 12 Jun 2009 10:04 PM
From: United Kingdom
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
from the dark side of a lunatic
Written by: anthonyC, 14 Jun 2009 12:03 AM
From: United States
Dready,
You are so predictable. Your have stopped being a challenge for quite some time. It is too easy.
Point out how your beliefs are based on false assumptions and you automatically lash back with insults.
From: United States
and your point is? ah , well. i have a herculean challenge before me. i must ponder my choices with great care...I must choose between AnthonyC, who says that Malawi is a Socialist country, and all other reputable sources which describe it as capitalist. hmmm...lets see. shall i flip a coin?draw straws? pray for guidance? aw..hell no. i will choose the encyclopaedia, based on the fact that it is common knowledge that AnthonyC does not know the difference between his ass and a slice of avocado.
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An oxymoron if you ask me. All this is deliberate. It's to prevent the poorer nations of the earth from industrializing and using there own raw materials for their own industries and everyone's buying into it line, hook, and sinker.
Why would you assume as much?
Just like when the Spaniards first came over and started to take advantage of the indians by offering them cheap trinkets for gold, we still love flashy things and "bling". The inflated ego of public officials is responsible for much of the corruption frenzy which is rampant in DR. But the worship of the personality by unrepentant sycophants is in the genes of Dominicans too. This mix, together with the lack of transparency and accountability, really is responsible for the many ills that affect us today.
How all of us be 40% richer? explain.
The concept of separateness of the individual is mistaken. We are all connected one way or
another, to each other, and the environment where we choose to live.
Corruption, pollutes the pool that we all swim together in, and creates many secondary harmful effects that come back to haunt us, individually and collectively. Corruption is the worst crime because it affects the greatest number of people, and writers such as Dante, have condemned the corrupt government officials, to the seventh and most terrible hell.
Since we are all in this together then we all benefit if there was less corruption, as there will be more spendable budgetary income for public works, food, education, health benefits, charity and pensions for the elderly.
Comprende?
I looked at the headline quickly and thought if the reverse were also true:
"World Bank economist links poverty to climatic change, warns of egos."
Que te parece, Cholito?
No teme enfogones, no te decalientes, no te de un pique!
World Bank economist links poverty to climatic change = In rich countries people have no egos, They are fundamentally passive; they just make movies about killing, and destroying buildings, and bombing, etc.
World Bank economist warns of egos; If you get heated you loose your cool and become poor by un arranque de soberbia and wind up burning your house down killing innocent people and doing time....equals poverty for you and survivors....
These stupid headlines never seems to surprise me....Dumbing down of "catechumen", lumpen, plebeyos.....Proletariados...Meanwhile they laugh about us...Hahaha!
Keep people stupid by feeding them porqueria stories.....BlablaBlah
Garbage in, garbage out!
Get out of her with the bunkum stories....Dreamweaver!
They fly their private jets at whim...Burning millions of gallons of jp4 for fun..Muerto 'e la risa.
You fly like a sardine on an Airbus, then get stuck on a a Hot (no A/C, no ventilation) plane for hours on the runway waiting for them to say the "bus" can finally take-off......Flying coach?.
It's More like shotgun on the pony express...
http://www.physorg.com/news163859331.html
S.
SOCIALISM
Any list of the world's poorest countries is a list of either socialist economies or countries trying to recover from socialist policies.
It is a FACT. It cannot be disputed. The only exception is of a nation ravaged by a long war like Columbia.
Don't believe me? Here is a list of countries ranked by poverty.
Pick any of the top 50 and prove me wrong.
Hell, Pick any of the top 100. I don't care. Facts are facts.
e.g. health care, electricity, transport ( trains etc ) social services, some food production in the social sector in France. Basically private industry collapses and need rescuing. Germany is slightly unique in that there is state and worker representation on the supervisory board of every major company. In fact the success of VW etc. has come through special laws giving the state a large say in the running of the company.
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/0....risk-future-tech-and-product-pla/
China is emerging rapidly from poverty though a plan and a mixed economy with numerous state owned coprorations and majority shareholdings. The USA only works because the inefficiency of the
S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yjfoOn0zgM
Tobacco companies pay the lowest possible price and have made little attempt to control child labour.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/745/38532
S.
Tobacco companies pay the lowest possible price and have made little attempt to control child labour.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/745/38532
S.
Money
(Waters) 6:32
Money, get away.
Get a good job with good pay and you're okay.
Money, it's a gas.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team.
Money, get back.
I'm all right Jack keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it's a hit.
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit.
I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet.
Money, it's a crime.
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise it's no surprise that they're
giving none away.
"HuHuh! I was in the right!"
"Yes, absolutely in the right!"
"I certainly was in the right!"
"You was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a
bruising!"
"Yeah!"
"Why d
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time!"
"I was just telling him, he couldn't get into number 2. He was asking
why he wasn't coming up on freely, after I was yelling and
screaming and telling him why he wasn't coming up on freely.
It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out"
You the luatic go - I'll stay here...
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/brain-damage-dark-lyrics.html
S.
S.
how about them apples, anthony? or do you disagree with the findings? you are only entitled to your own opinion, not your own facts, for chrissake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr3Qgbk-gBQ
S.
You are so predictable. Your have stopped being a challenge for quite some time. It is too easy.
Point out how your beliefs are based on false assumptions and you automatically lash back with insults.