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To: Sweet Ol who wrote (7877)	4/18/2010 3:02:42 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 16955

DR vs Haiti. The issue is not strong vs weak central government it is totally corrupt vs reasonably clean government. Both the Haitian and the DR government are corrupt. But Haiti/DR was a subtopic. The fact remains that you don't get many prosperous countries with small, weak central governments. If you can name a half dozen... And yes corruption plays a huge part in prosperity as well. (And you could use the chicken/egg argument; prosperous countries spawn large central government. But they seem to have longevity to me).