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Economic Justice in Haiti |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Anthony Phillips |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2007 |
| Size: 677 Words, 4,492 Characters |
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A meeting of international diplomats and financiers in Port-au-Prince this summer ended up with a commitment of $750 million in foreign aid to Haiti over the coming year. This generosity will build badly needed roads, schools and hospitals, which will make a real difference to ordinary Haitians—the poorest people in the Americas—in the short-term. But what Haiti really needs to permanently end centuries of misery is not the world's charity, but its justice.
The July donors' meeting refused to discuss the one fair and lasting solution to Haiti's grindin...
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...—based on national priorities set inside the country. It would also right a historical wrong, and set a strong example of good neighbor policies for a global neighborhood.
This article was originally published on TomPaine.com at www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/09/01/justice_for_haiti.php.
Copyright © Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP). (www.americas.irc-online.org).
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