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After a devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, the economic leaders of the free world forgave Haiti's debt. Will this action likely hurt or help Haiti's development? Explain. population is living with the disease.

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Ideally, economic debt forgiveness allows a developing nation to invest money in its people’s social welfare to improve areas such as healthcare and education rather than pay back loans that often were used corruptly by governments. Given the complete catastrophe of the Haiti earthquake and the country's severe poverty, this debt forgiveness hopefully will allow for a more rapid recovery from the devastation.

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Answer: It will help them because they can use the debt money to take care of their people

Explanation: You own someone and your citizens lives with disease and because of earthquake those who you own forgave you

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