Should the world bail out Haiti again?
| 08:56 UK time, Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Donors are today to raise more money for Haiti's reconstruction. The Haitian government is asking for nearly $4 bn. But with millions already donated, why should the world give more?
The amount is just a third of what's needed to get the country onto it's feet and past experiences have shown that aid has done very little to fix Haiti's problems.
that aid is doing its job in Haiti. "First, more is getting done than you think," he says. "And second, more needs to be done than you can imagine."
With schools reopening, food and water reaching the people - what's wrong with giving more?
After all, there is real potential for growth in post-earthquake Haiti. It all depends however on effective donor-backed reconstruction.
why she thinks there's a fundamental problem with aid to Haiti.
"...the people providing the money are quite far removed from (and generally not accountable to) the people being affected by it."
In Patricia Adams feels that whilst reconstruction plans are 'plausible on paper' there are better ways to help this 'predatory democracy'
"The backbone of the economy cannot be built by charity, however well-meaning."
Can more money fix Haiti's problems and would you give more?
