Haiti

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BRIEFS
Shared Harvest: Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation
January 23, 2017
We estimate the economic effects of short-term work by a small sample of farmers from Haiti in the United States, where no US workers are available. We then compare these to the effects of more traditional assistance. We find that these work opportunities benefit Haitian families much more directly,...
POLICY PAPERS
Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation: A Preliminary Impact Evaluation
January 23, 2017
We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the US with Haitian workers differs markedly from the effects of more traditional forms of assist...

Jun

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2015



6:00—7:30 PM
RYOT Film Screening: Body Team 12
June 04, 2015
Rajesh Mirchandani moderated a discussion and Q&A with RYOT co-founder David Darg following the screening of three short films: Body Team 12, Baseball in the Time of Cholera, and Nepal Virtual Reality. Darg spent the last decade as a first responder and frontline c...
Blog Post
Haiti: Five Years After the Quake, the Band Plays On
January 06, 2015
On January 12, 2010, an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 struck close to the densely populated city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing over 200,000 people and reducing the city to rubble. Five years later, I still cannot figure out where all the money has gone.
Blog Post
Haiti Quake: Four Years Later, We Still Don’t Know Where the Money Has Gone
January 07, 2014
January 12, 2014 marks the fourth anniversary of the massive quake in Haiti that left over 200,000 people dead and several million people homeless.  The response from rich countries was overwhelming—over $9 billion was disbursed towards relief and reconstruction efforts ($3 billion from t...
Blog Post
Four Years after Catastrophe, No Investment in Facilitating Labor Mobility for Haiti
January 06, 2014
This Sunday is the fourth anniversary of Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake. It immediately killed more than 150,000 people and the economy was shattered. I’ve been reflecting on the progress Haiti has made and the long road ahead.