Towards the Abyss? The Political Economy of Emergency in Haiti (Research for Action 40)
Summary: Mats Lundahl's study of how Haiti's humanitarian emergency of 1986 to 1994 was produced, written for UNU-WIDER's project on the decade's wave of emergencies.
Key Findings
- Periodises the conflict between the Haitian state and the population rather than dating the emergency to a single event.
- Covers the acute emergency of 1986 to 1994 and the 1991-94 sanctions.
- Records real GDP per capita falling below its early-1990s level.
Full Description
Mats Lundahl's study of how Haiti's humanitarian emergency of 1986 to 1994 was produced, written for UNU-WIDER's project on the decade's wave of emergencies. Lundahl is the standing economic historian of Haiti, and this periodises the conflict between the state and the population rather than treating the emergency as an event, which is what makes it still worth reading on a crisis thirty years past.
How to cite
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), 1997, Towards the Abyss? The Political Economy of Emergency in Haiti (Research for Action 40), https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/towards-abyss