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

by Terry F. Buss

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A Brookings Institution Press and the National Academy of Public Administration publication

Even after years of receiving considerable foreign aid, Haiti remains an impoverished, tremendously fragile state. Over a span of ten years, the United States spent over $4 billion in aid to Haiti, yet the average Haitian still has to survive on one dollar a day. Why has assistance been so ineffectual, and what can we learn from Haiti's plight about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815713916
• ISBN13: 9780815713913
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"