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Social resilience and state fragility in Haiti.
LIBRA HC153 .S63 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- World Bank country study
- A World Bank country study
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Population.
- Political stability.
- Haiti--Economic conditions--1971-.
- Haiti.
- Economic conditions.
- Political stability--Haiti.
- Haiti--Politics and government--1986-.
- Politics and government.
- Haiti--Economic policy.
- Economic policy.
- Haiti--Social conditions--1971-.
- Social conditions.
- Haiti--Population.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 120 pages : illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : World Bank, [2007]
- Summary:
- Haiti is a society whose rural communities in particular have developed coping mechanisms in response to a long history of underdevelopment and political instability. Like other fragile states, however, Haiti is also beset by widespread poverty, inequality, economic decline, unemployment, poor governance, and violence. This Country Study examines Haiti's conflict-poverty trap from the perspective of the triangle of factors that have been identified as its main components: (a) demographic and socioeconomic factors at the individual and household levels; (b) the state's institutional capacity to provide public goods and manage social risks; and (c) the agendas and strategies of political actors. The report's three main chapters explore the nature of these components. The closing chapter considers the linkages among them.--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- The Haitian people : demographics, poverty, and socioeconomic outcomes and risks / by Dorte Verner
- Governance and institutions / by Willy Egset and Stephanie Kuttner
- Political forces and actors / by Dan Erikson ... [et al.]
- Conclusion : breaking out of the conflict-poverty-trap / by Dorte Verner, Stephanie Kuttner, and Willy Egset.
- Notes:
- "Dorte Verner and Willy Egset (task team leaders and the main authors of this report) led the report team"--P. vii.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-120).
- ISBN:
- 9780821371879
- 0821371878
- OCLC:
- 166368188
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