Haiti, economic history & development, technology, random stuff. Born and raised in Cap-Haïtien. Currently wandering in Africa.
Joined August 2009
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Apr 30
What if one framework could explain everything that happened to Haiti, from 19th century land reform, to 2010 earthquake, to why the currency is appreciating right in the middle of an existential crisis. Introducing my Totally Accurate Model of What Happened to Haiti. No less!
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Jun 1
"That’s how the winning teams are created nowadays. Socially, ex nihilo."
Jun 1
My today's Substack:
A different game
On football’s extreme commercialization
branko2f7.substack.com/p/a-d…
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May 27
Economic growth is literally beautiful
May 27
Rwanda at night, 2013 → 2025. Over the same period, electricity access grew from ~19% to 82%.
I built this map using real NOAA VIIRS satellite data, retrieved via Google Earth Engine, and animated it in Python.
i am fascinated by this kind of data visualization and what it means for the future of impact reporting.
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May 19
What Bangkok street food tells us about what to do in Haiti?
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After a long break, I'm back to devposting! I argue that the development econ focus on "institutions" was a mistake – not (just) because the evidence was bad, but because the concept of "good institutions" is tautological and uninformative for policy.
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May 10
It will take Malawi 21 years of Chinese-style 7% growth to reach Kenya's current GDP per capita.
There's huge variation in incomes within Sub-Saharan Africa, which often goes ignored.
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Many African countries have a lot to learn from what went wrong in Haiti, which this article summarizes. It’s by @KayTiKal
May 1
An excellent post by Carl-Henri Prophete
(Haiti should be one of the most interesting countries to study: its decline from relative prosperity, early independence, and high land ownership to poverty and export of labor is a great study case in what went wrong.)
My Totally Accurate Model of What Happened to Haiti
substack.com/home/post/p-195…
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May 1
An excellent post by Carl-Henri Prophete
(Haiti should be one of the most interesting countries to study: its decline from relative prosperity, early independence, and high land ownership to poverty and export of labor is a great study case in what went wrong.)
My Totally Accurate Model of What Happened to Haiti
substack.com/home/post/p-195…
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Apr 30
What if one framework could explain everything that happened to Haiti, from 19th century land reform, to 2010 earthquake, to why the currency is appreciating right in the middle of an existential crisis. Introducing my Totally Accurate Model of What Happened to Haiti. No less!
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Excellent piece on how export-led growth can help the world's poorest.
"But consider what the world actually needs: not more development consultants, but more exporters without borders—people willing to trade the conference circuit for the factory floor, who go to places where formal employment barely exists and build the supply chains that bring it into being."
indevelopmentmag.com/exporte…
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Apr 16
Vietnam is a great example.
Vietnam used to be a command economy, but during the 1980 & 1990 Doi Moi reforms, while still socialist, Vietnam took 2 IMF loans (including a structural adjustment in 94), made market reforms, and is now a fast growing "Market Socialist" economy.
Apr 15
Vietnam was colonized by the French, bombed to pieces, and left with nothing.
Today it's kicking our asses back home in Africa. At some point we have to stop making excuses.
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Apr 15
I enjoyed chatting with Feyi and Tobi on the @1914Reader podcast. We discussed: The current situation in Haiti, the good and dark side of remittances, high labor costs in Africa and much more. substack.com/@kaytikal/note/…
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Mar 23
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3farmate.com
Mar 22
tomorrow 23.03.26
everything changes.
we will share with the world a more detailed video highlighting our contribution to agricultural engineering, as we fully unveil Ghana’s first autonomous farming robot (FAMA).
behind this historic milestone is a team of three engineers working across robotics, embedded systems, software, and mechanical design.
we have worked tirelessly to come this far—now standing at the edge of commercialization—and we are proud of what we have achieved as young people inspired by the Nkrumah Pan-African dream. but this is no longer a dream. what we have accomplished is the realization of a vision to turn ideas into tangible, visible outcomes.
@3farmatebots built everything in-house, right here in Ghana; and now, we need your help and support to tell our story to the world.
welcome to the new era of farming.
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Feb 28
My today's Substack.
To work or not to work
Can nations not work hard and continue to prosper?
branko2f7.substack.com/p/to-…
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