Haiti's National Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (DSNCRP): Institutional, Socio-Educational and Cultural Aspects

A May 2008 commentary on Haiti's National Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, published in La Chronique des Ameriques, examining the strategy's institutional, socio-educational and cultural dimensions rather than its expenditure tables.

Its argument is historical. It reads the DSNCRP against what it calls rentier traditions, tracing them to the Generaux-Habitants and the nineteenth-century merchants, and asks whether a poverty reduction strategy can succeed while the institutional arrangements that produced those traditions remain in place. The strengthening of the Generaux-Habitants as a form of power is treated as a persistent structure rather than a historical episode.

Because it is a commentary from outside the donor process, it is worth reading beside the DSNCRP itself and beside the joint staff advisory notes the corpus also holds: the strategy document states intent, the advisory notes assess credibility for lending purposes, and this asks whether the social formation the strategy addresses can absorb it.