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Économie: Un rapport de la Banque Mondiale sur Haiti
Google Translater for Website Click on the dropdown button to translate. Translate this page: You can translate the content of this page by selecting a language in the select box. Vous pouvez traduire cet article dans la langue de votre choix dans la case de sélection Premi è re Partie (Mise en Contexte) Le développement économique et social d'Haïti continue d'être entravé par l'instabilité politique, l’augmentation de la violence, un niveau d'insécurité sans précédent et une fragilité exacerbée. Haïti reste le pays le plus pauvre de la région Amérique latine et Caraïbes et parmi les pays les plus pauvres du monde. En 2021, Haïti avait un coefficient GNI par habitant de 1 420 $ US, le plus bas de la région ALC, qui était en moyenne de 15 092 $ US. Selon l'indice de développement humain de l'ONU, Haïti est classé 163 sur 191 pays en 2020. Au milieu de la crise politique et institutionnelle persistante, de la forte vulnérabilité aux risqu...
The U.S. Stole Billions From Haiti. It’s Time to Give It Back.
Google Translater for Website Click on the dropdown button to translate. Translate this page: BY JOSEPH BLOCHER AND MITU GULATI SEPT 14, 2021 2:26 PM Haiti is in desperate need after a devastating earthquake, a hurricane, a presidential assassination, and not enough vaccines to stop the delta variant. International aid is pouring in, which is all good, but not good enough. It is time to ask about what Haiti is owed —not in terms of international benevolence or moral duty, but as a matter of basic legal rights and principles. Many think of Haiti as a debtor nation, but the fact is that former colonial powers might be the ones legally in debt to Haiti. And the basis for that debt is not just a generalized grievance about colonial domination, but something much more tangible: Haiti once had something of great value, a The island of Navassa is about 30 miles off the coast of Haiti and is covered in centuries’ worth o...
One Of The World's Poorest Countries Has One Of The World's Lowest COVID Death Rates
Haiti has one of the lowest death rates from COVID-19 in the world. As of the end of April, only 254 deaths were attributed to COVID-19 in Haiti over the course of the entire pandemic. The Caribbean nation, which often struggles with infectious diseases, has a COVID-19 death rate of just 22 per million. In the U.S. the COVID-19 death rate is 1,800 per million, and in parts of Europe. the fatality rate is approaching 3,000 deaths per million. Haiti's success is not due to some innovative intervention against the virus. Most people have given up wearing masks in public. Buses and markets are crowded. And Haiti hasn't yet administered a single COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Jean "Bill" Pape says a combination of factors have kept the death rate so low. Pape played a role similar to Dr. Anthony Fauci's in the U.S. The 74-year-old Haitian doctor served as the co-chair of a national commission in Haiti to deal with COVID-19, leading the country's effort to deal with the cri...