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Title Social resilience and state fragility in Haiti
Published Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 120 pages) : illustrations, color map
Series A World Bank country study
World Bank country study.
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 [and others] -- Conclusion : breaking out of the conflict-poverty-trap / by Dorte Verner, Stephanie Kuttner, and Willy Egset
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
Notes "Dorte Verner and Willy Egset (task team leaders and the main authors of this report) led the report team"--Page vii
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-120)
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Subject Political stability -- Haiti
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
Economic history
Economic policy
Political stability
Politics and government
Population
Social conditions
SUBJECT Haiti -- Economic conditions -- 1971- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058349
Haiti -- Politics and government -- 1986- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86008159
Haiti -- Economic policy
Haiti -- Social conditions -- 1971- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058371
Haiti -- Population
Subject Haiti
Form Electronic book
Author Verner, Dorte.
Egset, Willy.
World Bank.
ISBN 9780821372883
0821372882
9780821371879
0821371878
0821371886
9780821371886
1281000957
9781281000958