Why is Haiti impoverished?



Haiti's Food Crisis: Imposing Hunger on the People of Haiti
Excerpt from a presentation by Pierre Labossiere at La Pena Cultural Center, June 26, 2008

Haitian Pigs Meet Globalization by Jean-Bertrand Aristide
A classic parable of globalization - how the Haitian Creole pig was destroyed

Trade and the disappearance of Haitian rice by Josiane Georges

Woch nan Soley: The Denial of the Right to Water in Haiti

Bush Administration Accused of Withholding Lifesaving Aid to Haiti by Cyril Mychalejko
Report documents human cost of Bush administration war against Haiti's democracy

Neoliberalism in Haiti: the case of rice continues by Haiti Progres

If World Bank wants to help Haiti, it should cancel its debt! by Brian Concannon, Jr
Bank President Robert Zoellick, visiting Haiti October 20th, should cancel the $1 million a week Haiti sends to banks

Making a Killing from Hunger, April 2008 GRAIN

Killing Hope: US military and CIA interventions since WWII by William Blum
A chapter on Haiti

Haitian and California farmers squeezed by the same company by Food First

WE ARE HUNGRY! by Carolyn Bennett
No issue stirs outrage more deeply than man-made food scarcity --spending trillions to kill, forcing millions to riot for rice

HAITI'S UNNATURAL DISASTER, interview with Dr. Paul Farmer

DEMOCRACY NOW! Paul Farmer discusses humanitarian disaster after 4 major storms hit Haiti

Neoliberalism in Haiti: the case of rice from Haiti Info, 1995

HAITI: Aristide's Call for Reparations from France by Dionne Jackson Miller
Aristide demanded that France pay Haiti over 21 billion U.S. dollars...equivalent to the 90 million gold francs Haiti was forced to pay Paris after winning its freedom from France 200 years ago. The massive toll France exacted on Haiti played a large part in the Caribbean country's descent into stark poverty and under-development.

DEMOCRACY UNDERMINED, ECONOMIC JUSTICE DENIED by Lisa McGowan January 1997
Structural adjustment and the aid juggernaut in Haiti

WHAT THE WORLD BANK AND IDB OWE HAITI by Dan Beeton, Global Policy Forum

 

  
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