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The Need for More Local Procurement in Haiti

Julie Walz and Vijaya Ramachandran of the Center for Global Development identify ways to multiply the effect of US assistance to Haiti.

US Spending in Haiti: The Need for Greater Transparency and Accountability

In this report from the Center for Global Development, Vijaya Ramachandran and Julie Walz highlight the need for more transparency and accountability regarding the aid inflows from the U.S.

A Humanitarian Crisis in Need of a Development Solution

In this report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Haiti is discussed.

Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone?

This Center for Global Development paper discusses important aid issues in Haiti, as well as ways that accountability and effectiveness can be approved.

Conceptualising the Causes and Consequences of Failed States: A Critical Review of the Literature

This paper examines the current trends in the literature of failed states, and attempts to highlight both the strengths and weaknesses of each in explaining the growing phenomena.

The 2010 Humanitarian Accountability Report

The Humanitarian Accountability Report (HAR) illustrates the principal trends and developments in relation to accountability in the humanitarian system.

Reconstruction Zones in Afghanistan and Haiti: A Way to Enhance Aid Effectiveness and Accountability

The record of countries coming out of war or chaos is dismal: roughly half of them fall back into crises, and, among the other half, most end up highly aid dependent. In this paper, the author develops a proposal for reconstruction zones as a way to jump-start the economies of conflict- and disaster-affected countries in a dynamic and inclusive way, by improving aid effectiveness and accountability.

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