Quand ARRETEREZ VOUS DE RACONTER VOS CONNERIES ????????<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Diane Hendrix <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dhendrix@mit.edu">dhendrix@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Another opinion from NPR: please post ideas/links/resources on<br>
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Marketplace Money/NPR Feb 3 2010. HOW TO REBUILD Haiti’s economy.<br>
<a href="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/02/03/pm-haiti-q/" target="_blank">http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/02/03/pm-haiti-q/</a><br>
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TYLER COWEN: To me it's one of the places where there is some essential<br>
soul of<br>
humanity, stronger than almost any other place I've been.<br>
<br>
He's been there a number of times. He collects Haitian art and music.<br>
And thanks<br>
to a background in development economics, Cowen has become a student of<br>
Haiti's<br>
problems. (He teaches at George Mason University.) Cowen's suggestions..<br>
<br>
1) Let Haitians immigrate to rich countries to increase remittances.<br>
Money sent<br>
home totals 25% of Haiti’s GNP!!<br>
2) Get TENTS to Haiti ASAP. Send donations to shelter kits project --<br>
<a href="http://www.shelterboxusa.org/InsideAShelterbox.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.shelterboxusa.org/InsideAShelterbox.aspx</a> [The Dailykos community<br>
has contributed 86 shelterboxes to Haiti and is campaigning for 100.] How<br>
about a million?!<br>
3) Vaccinate children and deal with sanitation. (US and UN must help<br>
here, then<br>
Haitians must take over in longterm.)<br>
4) Get planting season started at once, sending seed and fertilizer,<br>
farmers to<br>
help. Some people ate mud cakes to keep from starving BEFORE the earthquake.<br>
<br>
COWEN: I think Haiti will remain corrupt for the foreseeable future. But there<br>
are two kinds of corruption. One kind of corruption is where you shut out the<br>
outside world because it's a threat to you. Another kind of corruption is you<br>
let the outside world in because you can take a piece of the pie. If Haiti<br>
moves to that second mode of corruption, which is a lot like how China<br>
works or<br>
how South Korea worked in the 70s, that's actually the scenario for<br>
hope. If our<br>
vision is to drive all corruption from Haiti that's unrealistic. What<br>
we need is<br>
a Haiti that is more commercial, more outward looking, and more open to<br>
the rest<br>
of the world.<br>
<br>
- Diane (<a href="mailto:dhendrix@mit.edu">dhendrix@mit.edu</a>)<br>
<br>
Quoting Adam Holt <<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org">holt@laptop.org</a>>:<br>
<br>
> "For years, educated émigrés have tried to play a more vital role<br>
> in Haiti’s development, with little success. The earthquake has<br>
> changed that."<br>
><br>
> NYT Excerpts:<br>
><br>
> FOR EMIGRES, HOSTILITIES BECOME RUBBLE<br>
><br>
> “The diaspora must organize to help us,” Prime Minister<br>
> Jean-Max Bellerive said last week at a conference in Montreal.<br>
> “I have no alternative. They have to be involved in Haiti; they<br>
> have to be engaged.” ...He need not have asked...<br>
><br>
> Still, the Haitian government’s new attitude has not erased<br>
> all skepticism. Some in the diaspora say they have been kept<br>
> at bay by fears that they would usurp jobs or expose corruption,<br>
> while others say the negative sentiment has been a political tool,<br>
> fanned for cynical ends. Whatever the reason, it did not ease the<br>
> hurt when Haiti welcomed the billions of dollars that émigrés sent<br>
> home but rebuffed their expertise...<br>
><br>
> The Haitian diaspora is estimated to be at least two million<br>
> strong, with more than half a million Haitian-born people<br>
> in the United States alone, heavily concentrated in South<br>
> Florida and Brooklyn. In 2008, Haitians around the world<br>
> sent at least $1.3 billion to Haiti, far more than the amount<br>
> of foreign aid the country received, according to the World Bank.<br>
><br>
> ...On an economic and political level, the diaspora could be<br>
> threatening, said Harry Casimir, 30, a Haitian-born businessman<br>
> who opened an information technology business there just<br>
> before the earthquake.<br>
><br>
> “Once the elites have money and power,” Mr. Casimir said,<br>
> “they’re scared of people like me, the younger generation and<br>
> so on. Because we travel around the world and see how other<br>
> governments function, and obviously most countries are not<br>
> corrupt like Haiti.”<br>
><br>
> But several expatriates acknowledged that some of the fault<br>
> might lie in a certain swagger on their own part.<br>
><br>
> “People in the diaspora may be coming with that complex of<br>
> superiority, where they think, We know better; we can do it<br>
> better,” said the Rev. Reginald Jean-Mary, pastor of Notre<br>
> Dame d’Haiti in the Little Haiti section of Miami.<br>
><br>
> Yet Father Jean-Mary provoked murmurs of excitement<br>
> Sunday at a packed high Mass here, when he proclaimed,<br>
> “This is the moment to suspend politics, because we have<br>
> had enough politics in Haiti.”<br>
><br>
> He added, “It’s time to open Haiti to the diaspora.”<br>
><br>
> IN FULL:<br>
> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/us/04diaspora.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/us/04diaspora.html</a><br>
><br>
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<br>
Diane Hendrix<br>
_______________________________________<br>
Lecturer, Writing Across the Curriculum<br>
Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Room 12-116,<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
email: <a href="mailto:dhendrix@mit.edu">dhendrix@mit.edu</a> cell: 617-699-8881<br>
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