Social Resilience and State Fragility in Haiti.
Haiti is a resilient society whose rural communities in particular have developed coping mechanisms in response to a long history of underdevelopment and political instability. The country's religious, cultural, and artistic life is highly diverse and vibrant. Like other fragile states, however...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Herndon :
World Bank Publications,
2007.
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Colección: | Country Studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Haiti is a resilient society whose rural communities in particular have developed coping mechanisms in response to a long history of underdevelopment and political instability. The country's religious, cultural, and artistic life is highly diverse and vibrant. Like other fragile states, however, Haiti is also beset by widespread poverty, inequality, economic decline, unemployment, poor governance, and violence. This Country Study examines Haiti's conflict-poverty trap from the perspective of the triangle of factors that have been identified as its main components: (a) demographic and socioecon. |
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Notas: | F.3. The Haitian Administrative Governance Structure. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (147 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-120). |
ISBN: | 9780821371886 0821371886 |