Publication

The brief discusses security challenges in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. It argues that the country’s omnipresent conditions of poverty, deprivation and lack of opportunity that preceded the earthquake remain firmly in place and that Haiti’s recovery from the earthquake’s devastation has been slow. Few Haitians have experienced tangible benefits from the now almost legendary $5.3 billion pledged by international donors at a March 2010 United Nations conference for earthquake recovery and new investments in agriculture, manufacturing and tourism.