With the indigenous people out of the way, St. Lucia settled into a stable, multi-cultural democracy, and colonists began to build roads and set up plantations. Soon, they were exporting sugar, cocoa, coffee, and spices to Europe. Warehouses sprung up along the wharf in Castries, and shops and homes were built along roads radiating inland from the bay.
In 1979, Lewis shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with American Theodore Schultz. Not bad for a small-island orphan who didn t know the meaning of economics when he started college. He died in 1991, at the age of 76.
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