Education in Haiti: The Way Forward (2008)
This report seeks to identify the principal issues and policy options that can help to guide those who are seeking to improve education in Haiti. It emphasizes clarifying and strengthening…
This report seeks to identify the principal issues and policy options that can help to guide those who are seeking to improve education in Haiti. It emphasizes clarifying and strengthening…
Executive summary The current state of the Haitian education sector is a reason for grave concern, both for national authorities and the international community. On a national average, only 60…
Haiti's postcolonial leaders promoted education, at least in principle. The 1805 constitution called for free and compulsory primary education. The early rulers, Henri (Henry) Christophe (1807-20) and Alexandre Pétion (1806-18),…
Haitian Living Conditions Survey-HLCS) produced data on 7,186 households (ECVH). Three questionnaires were used to collect data for the ECVH. The Housing Questionnaire covered housing demographics, migration, education, health, the labor…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYHaiti is known throughout the Caribbean, Americas and Europe for the quality and creativity of its handicrafts, especially metalwork. The capacity of the handicrafts industry to turn that advantage…
This paper was written as part of the Accelerated Microenterprise Advancement Project (AMAP)Business Development Services Knowledge and Practice (BDS K&P) research initiative. The AMAPBDS initiative’s major objective is “integrating micro…
The study of settlement geography, demography and social behavior in the prehistoric Carib and Taino societies of the Caribbean has recently become a prominent domain of interest to archaeologists working in these islands. Archaeological floor plans for prehistoric houses within the islands of St. Eustatius, Barbados, St. Thomas, Cuba and Puerto Rico demonstrate the cultural continuity of house shape, settlement organization and social organization from the early Saladoid to the contact period.
In a context where 80% of the population live below the poverty level, and where the political situation is characterized by instability, the Haitian educational system is one of the…
ABSTRACT Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, has a unique education system. The overwhelming majority of children are enrolled in private schools. In the absence of a functioning…
With a per capita income estimated at 270 dollars in 1994, Haiti is the 14th poorest countries in the world and has become the poorest nation in the Westem Hemisphere.…
For the past several months the PRET Project in Haiti has been exploring ways of buildingrelationships between individuals and workshops producing handicrafts in Haiti on the one hand,and manufacturers and…