Haiti in the Balance Why Foreign Aid Has Failed and What We Can Do About It

"Despite having received considerable foreign aid in recent decades, particularly from the United States, Haiti remains an impoverished nation and an extremely fragile state. Over the last ten years alone, U.S. authorities spent over $4 billion in aid to the island nation, yet the average Haitian still must survive on one dollar a day. Why has financial assistance been so ineffectual in pulling Haiti out of misery, and what can we learn from this cautionary tale? Haiti in the Balance addresses those questions through analysis of Haiti's difficult history, its politics, and its foreign relations-particularly with Washington, D.C."--BOOK JACKET.

Terry F. Buss is a distinguished professor at the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University in Australia and immediate past director of international programs at the National Academy of Public Administration.