Poverty in Haiti: Essays on Underdevelopment and Post Disaster Prospects PDF
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Poverty in Haiti AlsobyMatsLundahl THEDISTORTEDECONOMY(withHansC.Blomqvist,2002) Poverty in Haiti Essays on Underdevelopment and Post Disaster Prospects Mats Lundahl Palgrave macmillan ©MatsLundahl2011 Softcoverreprintofthehardcover1stedition2011978-0-230-28941-3 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6-10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedhisrighttobeidentified astheauthorofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2011by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN978-1-349-33092-8 ISBN978-0-230-30493-2(eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230304932 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Lundahl,Mats,1946– PovertyinHaiti:essaysonunderdevelopmentandpost disasterprospects/MatsLundahl. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferences. 1. Haiti—Economicpolicy. 2. Haiti—Economicconditions— 1971– I. Title. HC153.L852011 338.97294—dc22 2010042401 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 For Bo, who put me on the track Contents ListofTablesandFigure ix Preface x Prologue:WillHaitiRiseFromtheAshes? xi Part I History 1 FiveDecisiveEventsintheEconomicHistoryofHaiti 3 2 EconomicInterestsAreColor-Blind:OnClassDivisions inHaitianHistory 19 3 PoorestintheCaribbean:HaitiintheTwentiethCentury 26 Part II ContemporaryProblems 4 EconomicandPoliticalForcesinHaitian Underdevelopment 59 5 TheHaitianDilemmaReexamined:LessonsfromthePast intheLightofSomeNewEconomicTheory 73 6 IncomeandLandDistributioninHaiti:SomeRemarkson AvailableStatistics 107 7 SomeEconomicDeterminantsofHaitianMigrationto theDominicanRepublic 125 Part III TheFailedTransition 8 AnotherFailedAmericanOccupation? 155 9 FromKleptocracytoDemocracy? 160 10 ProblemsofPolicyReformintheHaitianEconomy 172 11 SustainedGrowthinHaiti:Pipe-DreamorRealistic Possibility? 188 vii viii Contents Part IV AFutureforHaiti? 12 HatingtheUnitedStatesDoesNotHelpHaiti 221 13 AftertheEarthquake:WhatFutureforHaiti? 227 AuthorIndex 272 SubjectIndex 275 List of Tables and Figure Tables Chapter6 1 Distributionoflaborincome,1970 109 2 Landdistributionbynumberoffarmsandsize,according tothe1950,1971,and1982censuses 114 3 Landdistributionin1950accordingtoGéraldBrisson 114 Chapter13 1 Haiti’spositionintheTransparencyInternational corruptionperceptionsindex 239 Figure Chapter10 1 Rulerrevenueandcostfunctions 174 ix
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