TITLE:
Poverty in Haiti
AUTHORS:
Guy-Robert Pierre
KEYWORDS:
Poverty, Cultural Causes, Structural Causes, Education, Slavery, Aid, Corruption, Unemployment, Political Instability, Inequality
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.10 No.3,
June
10,
2020
ABSTRACT: Poverty is one of the significant problems that Haiti is facing
presently. Poverty in Haiti is caused by several factors structural or
cultural. Furthermore, Haiti’s debt is a result of decades of exploitation from
European colonizers. Nonetheless, Haiti also lacks the capacity to influence
social processes, public policies, and resource allocation. She requires access
to the relevant skills, knowledge, education, and personal development that are
essential for the development of a society. Throughout this article, it is
argued that international Aid, corruption, slavery, and unemployment are some
of the main factors that cause Poverty in Haiti. However, even though Haiti is
a developing country, it has lots of resources that can be most helpful to her
development. Conversely, we can infer that to reduce or eradicate poverty; it
is necessary to have strong institutions, transparent governments, equitable
distribution of resources, and integrity of character in governments.