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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812072603321

Autore

Buss Terry F

Titolo

Haiti in the balance : why foreign aid has failed and what we can do about it / / Terry F. Buss with Adam Gardner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, : National Academy of Public Administration, c2008

ISBN

1-282-13118-4

9786612131189

0-8157-0164-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GardnerAdam

Disciplina

338.91

Soggetti

Economic assistance - Haiti

Haiti Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Haiti in extremis -- Political history -- Foreign assistance -- Foreign assistance and foreign policy -- Foreign assistance failures -- Lessons learned : reforming foreign assistance -- Lessons learned : governance and democracy programs -- Rene Preval's first two years in office : 2006--08.

Sommario/riassunto

"Tackles such questions as why has assistance been so ineffectual and what can be learned from Haiti's plight concerning foreign aid in general, by analyzing nearly twenty years of Haitian history, politics, and foreign relations"--Provided by publisher.