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Even when Haiti and international donors reach the point of working together on longer-term recovery projects, there remains a great fear that much of the billions of dollars involved will fall prey to Haiti's notorious official and business corruption. To assuage that concern, Bellerive says that what matters...
Such is the mix of anticipation and frustration forming, along with the rain clouds, over the western hemisphere's poorest country. Haiti's challenges seem even more daunting now that a new study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington has re-estimated the earthquake damage from $5...
Still, echoing the sentiments of many development experts, Bellerive insists the quake's obliteration has yielded an opportunity to realize changes in Haiti - in as early as "four to five years," he believes - that might not have been possible before. The most important, he says, is the "deconcentration" of half...
This is hardly the first time the world has heard renaissance rhetoric about Haiti, a republic long crippled by chronic political and natural catastrophes. And experts say it will take far more than just new agribusiness, especially housing and manufacturing, to make the relocation plan anything besides a pipe dream...
While it's hard to imagine the Haitian élite ceding its inordinate wealth and power to the grass roots in that process, Bellerive insists the government, like international donors, wants decentralization. Despite the recent creation of a federal reconstruction commission, he says, "much of the rebuilding authority has to...