Haiti: The impact of COVID-19 and preliminary implications: Interim report

The country is facing a damaging combination of political, economic, social, and health crises, playing out amidst extreme uncertainty. The current situation is to a large extent the continuation of a very complex political and social history. The more recent period opened after the ousting of the d...

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Autores principales: Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Piñeiro, Valeria, De Salvo, Carmine Paolo, Laborde Debucquet, David
Formato: Artículo preliminar
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Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143642
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author Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio
Piñeiro, Valeria
De Salvo, Carmine Paolo
Laborde Debucquet, David
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Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio
Laborde Debucquet, David
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description The country is facing a damaging combination of political, economic, social, and health crises, playing out amidst extreme uncertainty. The current situation is to a large extent the continuation of a very complex political and social history. The more recent period opened after the ousting of the dictator JeanClaude Duvalier (known as Baby Doc) in 1986 and a sequence of military governments, when in 1990 Haiti had the first free election in modern history. The democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was then driven from office by yet another military coup in 1991 but, after UN sanctions, free elections were again held in 1995. Concerns about security and the limitations of the fragile government to keep peace led to the establishment of the United Nations Mission in Haiti (UNMIH), a peacekeeping operation carried out between September 1993 and June 1996. The Mission was reestablished (MINUSTAH) in April 2004, after a rebellion took over most of Haiti and President Bertrand Aristide resigned. MINUSTAH ended in 2017, when it was replaced by a new UN compact (see below). Since 1995 there have been a sequence of free elections, but not without controversies and violence. In addition, the country suffered a series of very damaging natural disasters during this period, particularly the lethal earthquake of 2010 (from which Haiti has never fully recovered), but also a series of tropical storms and hurricanes (tropical storm Jeanne in 2004; hurricane Dennis in 2005; further tropical storms in 2008; hurricane Sandy in 2012; and hurricane Matthew in 2016, the strongest in decades). Recently, Haiti also experienced drought conditions that affected agricultural production. Furthermore, at the end of 2010 a cholera outbreak was reported, which ended up killing thousands of people, and whose source was a camp of UN peace-keeping soldiers.
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spelling CGSpace1436422025-11-06T07:28:34Z Haiti: The impact of COVID-19 and preliminary implications: Interim report Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio Piñeiro, Valeria De Salvo, Carmine Paolo Laborde Debucquet, David economic impact policies covid-19 health social protection nutrition gross national product social safety nets pandemics The country is facing a damaging combination of political, economic, social, and health crises, playing out amidst extreme uncertainty. The current situation is to a large extent the continuation of a very complex political and social history. The more recent period opened after the ousting of the dictator JeanClaude Duvalier (known as Baby Doc) in 1986 and a sequence of military governments, when in 1990 Haiti had the first free election in modern history. The democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was then driven from office by yet another military coup in 1991 but, after UN sanctions, free elections were again held in 1995. Concerns about security and the limitations of the fragile government to keep peace led to the establishment of the United Nations Mission in Haiti (UNMIH), a peacekeeping operation carried out between September 1993 and June 1996. The Mission was reestablished (MINUSTAH) in April 2004, after a rebellion took over most of Haiti and President Bertrand Aristide resigned. MINUSTAH ended in 2017, when it was replaced by a new UN compact (see below). Since 1995 there have been a sequence of free elections, but not without controversies and violence. In addition, the country suffered a series of very damaging natural disasters during this period, particularly the lethal earthquake of 2010 (from which Haiti has never fully recovered), but also a series of tropical storms and hurricanes (tropical storm Jeanne in 2004; hurricane Dennis in 2005; further tropical storms in 2008; hurricane Sandy in 2012; and hurricane Matthew in 2016, the strongest in decades). Recently, Haiti also experienced drought conditions that affected agricultural production. Furthermore, at the end of 2010 a cholera outbreak was reported, which ended up killing thousands of people, and whose source was a camp of UN peace-keeping soldiers. 2021-05-20 2024-05-22T12:15:43Z 2024-05-22T12:15:43Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143642 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134410 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134411 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134534 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134533 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.135035 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio; Piñeiro, Valeria; De Salvo, Carmine Paolo; and Laborde Debucquet, David. 2021. Haiti: The impact of COVID-19 and preliminary implications: Interim report. LAC Working Paper 18. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134409.
spellingShingle economic impact
policies
covid-19
health
social protection
nutrition
gross national product
social safety nets
pandemics
Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio
Piñeiro, Valeria
De Salvo, Carmine Paolo
Laborde Debucquet, David
Haiti: The impact of COVID-19 and preliminary implications: Interim report
title Haiti: The impact of COVID-19 and preliminary implications: Interim report
title_full Haiti: The impact of COVID-19 and preliminary implications: Interim report
title_fullStr Haiti: The impact of COVID-19 and preliminary implications: Interim report
title_full_unstemmed Haiti: The impact of COVID-19 and preliminary implications: Interim report
title_short Haiti: The impact of COVID-19 and preliminary implications: Interim report
title_sort haiti the impact of covid 19 and preliminary implications interim report
topic economic impact
policies
covid-19
health
social protection
nutrition
gross national product
social safety nets
pandemics
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143642
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