Whenever I read sad stories about poor countries like Haiti[a], I like to ponder a hypothetical scenario:

If one were a god who could, with the snap of a finger, replace the country's entire population with an equal number of people, randomly sampled from a rich, diverse country (say, Canada, but any other rich, diverse country would do), how would the poor country's fortune change, if at all, over the course of a generation?

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[a] According to the World Bank, Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas: https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/haiti/overview