Haiti

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Shared Harvest: Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation

and

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 PAPER

Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation: A Preliminary Impact Evaluation

Michael Clemens

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Hannah Postel

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

17

2015

6:00—7:30 PM

RYOT Film Screening: Body Team 12

Rajesh Mirchandani

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

Vijaya Ramachandran

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.