Despair, Desperation, and Distrust in Haiti Following Earthquake
The situation following yet another disaster in the country dubbed “poorest in the western hemisphere” is grim, even by Haitian standards.
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Haiti Hit With Massive Earthquake, Hundreds Dead and Missing
You’d be hard pressed to find a country in the world on a worse run of hardships than Haiti and its long-suffering people are dealing with.
A Close Look at Haitian Poverty
This piece by Jared Diamond provides a fantastic amount of insight into why Haiti is so much poorer than even other poor Caribbean nations, including its neighbor the Dominican Republic. I think it
Helping Hands
I’m a poor substitute for Tyler Cowen, but since Sonny Bunch is soliciting comments on this post, I thought I’d chime in. The argument Bunch links to is pretty simple: We should think twice...
Too little colonialism?
At the Corner, Mark Krikorian proposes one possible explanation for Haiti’s woes: My guess is that Haiti’s so screwed up because it wasn’t colonized long enough. The ancestors of today’s Haitians, like elsewhere in...
Development is Not a Political Tool (w/ Ref. to Haiti)
David Rothkopf, in what I (charitably) assume is supposed to be a political self-confession (complete with self-flagellation) on Haiti: In all its benighted history, perhaps Haiti’s greatest moment of hope since its independence came...
