Haiti in the Balance: Why Foreign Aid Has Failed and What We Can Do About It
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Haiti in the Balance: Why Foreign Aid Has Failed and What We Can Do About It
By (Author) Terry F. Buss
With Adam Gardner
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Brookings Institution
19th August 2008
United States
Classifications
Adult Education
Non Fiction
338.91097294
Physical Properties
Paperback
248
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 15mm
363g
Description
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 Haitis plight about foreign aid in general Haiti in the Balance tackles those questions by analysing nearly twenty years of Haitian history, politics, and foreign relations.
Reviews
"This book stands out in the literature on Haiti because it fully and competently addresses the topic of the subtitle,"Why Foreign Aid Has Failed and What We Can Do About It."" CHOICE
Author Bio
Terry F. Buss is the director on international programs at the National Academy of Public Administration. He has published 12 books on a number of policy issues, most recently Modernizing Democracy: Innovations in Public Participation, written with F. Steven Redburn and Kristina Guo (M.E. Sharpe, 2006). Adam Gardner is currently a graduate student of public administration at the University of Southern California.
