Fixing Haiti : MINUSTAH and beyond / edited by Jorge Heine and Andrew S. Thompson.

References to the land of the "black Jacobins" are almost always followed by the phrase "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere". To that distinction, on January 12, 2010, Haiti added another, when it was hit by a devastating natural disaster, a 7.0 Richter scale earthquak...

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Corporate Author: United Nations University. Press
Other Authors: Heine, Jorge, Thompson, Andrew S. (Andrew Stuart), 1975-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, ©2011.
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Summary:References to the land of the "black Jacobins" are almost always followed by the phrase "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere". To that distinction, on January 12, 2010, Haiti added another, when it was hit by a devastating natural disaster, a 7.0 Richter scale earthquake. Since 2004, the United Nations has been in Haiti through MINUSTAH in an ambitious attempt to help Haiti raise itself by its bootstraps. This effort has now acquired additional urgency. Is Haiti a failed state? Does it deserve a Marshall-plan-like program? What will it take to address the Haitian predicament? In this book, some of the world's leading experts on Haiti examine the challenges faced by the country, the tasks undertaken by the UN, and the new role of hemispheric players like Argentina, Brazil and Chile, as well as that of Canada, France and the United States.--Publisher's description.
Physical Description:xxi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789280811971 (pbk.)
9280811975 (pbk.)