Haiti in the Balance Why Foreign Aid Has Failed and What We Can Do About It

by Buss, Terry F.; Gardner, Adam

• ISBN13: 9780815713913
• ISBN10: 0815713916
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-30
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Summary

"Despite having received considerable foreign aid in recent decades, particularly from the United States, Haiti remains an impoverished nation and an extremely fragile state. Over the last ten years alone, U.S. authorities spent over $4 billion in aid to the island nation, yet the average Haitian still must survive on one dollar a day. Why has financial assistance been so ineffectual in pulling Haiti out of misery, and what can we learn from this cautionary tale? Haiti in the Balance addresses those questions through analysis of Haiti's difficult history, its politics, and its foreign relations-particularly with Washington, D.C."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Terry F. Buss is a distinguished professor at the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University in Australia and immediate past director of international programs at the National Academy of Public Administration.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Haiti in Extremis	p. 10
Political History	p. 20
Foreign Assistance	p. 48
Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy	p. 68
Foreign Assistance Failures	p. 86
Lessons Learned: Reforming Foreign Assistance	p. 130
Lessons Learned: Governance and Democracy Programs	p. 154
Rene Preval's First Two Years in Office: 2006-08	p. 169
Afterword	p. 183
Appendixes
Presidents of Haiti, 1804 to Present	p. 187
The Haiti Transition Initiative: A Case Study	p. 189
Notes	p. 193
References	p. 207
Index	p. 221
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