The political economy of disaster
Subtitle: destitution, plunder and earthquake in Haiti
By: Mats Lundahl
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780415816083; 9781138902640
Subjects: Economic policy; Economic assistance; Economic aspects; Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-432) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Dismal Past; title: Part I: Before the Quake; title: 1. The Economic Consequences of 1809, or 'Was Haiti Doomed to Fail?' A Story of Factor Proportions, Labor Market Institutions and Politics; title: Appendix: A Capsule History of Haitian Exports; title: 2. Towards the Abyss? The Political Economy of Emergency in Haiti; title: 3. Economic Reform in Haiti: Past Failures and Future Successes? / with Rubén Silié; title: 4. Descent into Crisis: Politics and Economics from Aristide to the Earthquake; title: 5. The Failure of Community-Based Entrepreneurship in Haiti; title: 6. Reaching the Poor: Some Observations on Formal and Informal Credit in Haiti / with Johan Dahlstrand; title: 7. Book Reviews: Some Recent Historical Works on Haiti; title: Haitian Migration; title: Jacques Roumain and Gouverneurs de la rosée; title: 8. Economic Growth in Haiti: A Mere Illusion?; title: Part II: The Earthquake and After; title: 9. 7.0 on the Richter Scale; title: 10. The Controversial Death Toll; title: 11. The Election Farce; title: 12. Camps, Security and Rebuilding; title: 13. The Interim Haiti Recovery Commission; title: 14. Industrialization by Necessity; title: 15. Micky at the Helm; title: Epilogue: Institutional Failure.