Rebuilding Haiti

Is Haiti on the road to sustainable development?

  • By:Marjorie Valbrun & Roland Flamini
  • Content Type: Report
  • Publisher: CQ Press
    • Publication year: 2012
    • Online pub date:
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/cqrglobal20121002

Introduction

Nearly three years after a major earthquake struck Haiti, the devastated country is still heavily dependent on foreign aid. Despite billions donated by the international community for earthquake relief, the lives of most Haitians have not significantly improved: Unemployment is at 40 percent, and most people live on less than $2 per day. Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the earthquake still live in filthy, dangerous tent camps or ...

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