Buss, Terry F.

Haiti in the balance why foreign aid has failed and what we can do about it / [electronic resource] : Terry F. Buss with Adam Gardner. - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press : National Academy of Public Administration, c2008. - xiv, 230 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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

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 -- René Préval's first two years in office : 2006--08.

"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.


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2009.
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Economic assistance--Haiti.


Haiti--Politics and government.


Electronic books.

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