Foreign Aid and the Failure of State Building in Haiti under the Duvaliers, Aristide, Préval and Martelly (WIDER Working Paper 2013/104)
Summary: Terry Buss's account of sixty years of aid to Haiti against the state it was meant to build, spanning the Duvaliers to Martelly.
Key Findings
- Puts at least US$20 billion of aid for reconstruction and development against sixty years of outcomes.
- Covers four political eras in one frame: the Duvaliers, Aristide, Préval and Martelly.
Full Description
Terry Buss's account of sixty years of aid to Haiti against the state it was meant to build, spanning the Duvaliers to Martelly. Most aid-effectiveness work on Haiti takes one program or one decade; this takes the whole period and asks why at least US$20 billion left the state fragile, which makes it the long-run frame the project-level evaluations in this corpus sit inside.
How to cite
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Foreign Aid and the Failure of State Building in Haiti under the Duvaliers, Aristide, Préval and Martelly (WIDER Working Paper 2013/104), https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/foreign-aid-and-failure-state-building-haiti-under-duvaliers-aristide-pr%C3%A9val-and