Haiti in the balance
Subtitle: why foreign aid has failed and what we can do about it
By: Terry F. Buss with Adam Gardner.
Contributors: Gardner, Adam.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780815713913
Subjects: Economic assistance -- Haiti; Haiti -- Politics and government
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Haiti in extremis; title: Political history; title: Foreign assistance; title: Foreign assistance and foreign policy; title: Foreign assistance failures; title: Lessons learned : reforming foreign assistance; title: Lessons learned : governance and democracy programs; title: Rene Preval's first two years in office : 2006; title: 08.