<html><head></head><body data-blackberry-caret-color="#00a8df" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dear Andrew</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cecil is around but he is very preoccupied preparing for an extended trip West. </div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;"><font face="Calibri, Slate Pro, sans-serif">The value of goods and services in kind can be given some verbal form by pointing out that in most rural areas water, fuel, many building materials, medicinal plants and footpaths are obtained at zero cash cost. The cost of accessing them in a city is money, not time. That is why the real standard of living drops in the city unless the cash income goes up a great deal. If the metric is cash income per household is the only measure considered</font></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;"> for 'poverty' the claims are suspect. </span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">$20 a day in rural Java for a family of 10 is a heck of a lot more than $40 a day in Jakarta. </span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">That's the point </span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">Crispin </span></div> <div id="_originalContent" style=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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>Cecil is not here to comment <br>
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Is Cecil not subscribed anymore? I valued his perspective even if some<br>
of the concepts were difficult to follow.<br>
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>so I will report that the value the average rural family gets from the environment is much more than the cash income of one or two dollars a day.<br>
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Indeed there is evidence from agrarian economy of old in Britain,<br>
evidenced also from old rhymes and songs, that cash was used to pay<br>
taxes and much local trade was by barter e.g. "baker's dozen".<br>
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AJH<br>
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