Haiti in the Balance: Why Foreign Aid Has Failed and What We Can Do About It
Buss and Gardner ask why decades of assistance have left Haiti no better off. Their account runs from Aristide's election in 1990 through the coup that followed, the embargo, the American intervention of 1994, his second presidency and its violent end in 2004, to Preval's return and the billions pledged after it.
Aid, on their telling, was repeatedly suspended, reduced, redirected and restored as leverage over Haitian politics, and the effect was to feed instability rather than to relieve it. Donors rank the country among the hardest cases anywhere, beside Somalia, Sudan and Zimbabwe, but the authors insist it is an extreme instance rather than a unique one.
They set the failure against a longer record: nine of fifty-four elected presidents finishing a term, upwards of a hundred revolts and coups, and repeated American landings. Neither Haitian governance nor donor practice, they conclude, can be repaired on its own.
Haiti in the Balance: Why Foreign Aid Has Failed and What We Can Do About It. (2009).
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