Foreign Policy published senior fellow Charles Kenny's column on the one year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti and why we should be optimistic about development progress there.
From the Article:
Still, there is some real good news to report regarding the benighted country's broader development prospects. While Haiti's income per capita dropped over the second half of the last century, infant mortality also fell dramatically, dropping from 22 percent to 8 percent of children under age 1. Meanwhile, life expectancy climbed from 42 to 61 years between 1960 and 2008. The progress in health in the country over the last 20 years is one reason why in the post-quake period, epidemics of infectious disease were limited to a cholera outbreak that was reasonably quickly contained. Similarly, adult literacy increased from 11 percent to 50 percent, and the primary school completion rate from 27 to 47 percent, between 1980 and 1997.
Read the Article.
