Dominican Republic and Haiti: Country Studies

Dominican Republic and Haiti: Country Studies
Bank, and the United States Agency for International Development.
These and other donors issue reports of surveys, policy
research, and other current information on Haiti. A good
recent collection of such reports is available from the World
Bank, Haiti: The Challenges ofPoverty Reduction.
Mats Lundahl, a Swedish economist, has written an economic
history, Peasants and Poverty: A Study of Haiti, and other
useful books and articles on Haiti; and Simon Fass has published
an interesting study on the economics of survival and
informal credit among the urban poor, Political Economy in
Haiti: The Drama of Survival. Development initiatives are treated
in a collection of articles edited by Derrick Brinkerhoff and
Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor, Politics, Projects, and People: Institutional
Development in Haiti.
More recent works include The Haitian Dilemma: A Case Study
in Demographics, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy by Ernest H.
Preeg, an economist and former United States ambassador to
Haiti. A conference on Haiti after the return of Aristide generated
a collection of papers edited by Robert I. Rotberg, Haiti
Renewed: Political and Economic Prospects. There is also a recent
volume on political economy by Alex Dupuy, Haiti in the New
World Order: The Limits of the Democratic Revolution, and an earlier
volume entitled Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and
Underdevelopment since 1 700. (For further information and complete
citations, see Bibliography.)
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