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Haiti gives the IMF a fresh lesson in the value of subsidies to the poor

A police offcer in Port-au-Prince on July 8, after two days of protests against a planned hike in fuel prices

JUST EIGHT DAYS AFTER ANNOUNCING AN International Monetary Fund–backed plan to cut government subsidies—a move that would raise fuel prices by up to 51%—Haiti’s Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned on July 14. The

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