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[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

Haiti: short and long-term development issues
Gert Rosenthal
This deliberately brief document was prepared by the Economic Commission=20
for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) at the request of the United=20
Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. Its primary purpose is to help=20
nurture the domestic debate on long-term development issues. More=20
specifically, while Haitians prepare to engage in an inclusive national=20
dialogue which centers on the upcoming electoral process, the country's=20
long-term development prospects cannot be absent from such a dialogue. On=20
the contrary, it is difficult to have progress without having a broad=20
understanding among the important stakeholders on how to begin to overcome =

some of the main challenges that Haiti faces today. Most of those=20
challenges fall in the realm of economic and social development. In this=20
regard, a second purpose of the document is to offer the Government of=20
Haiti a framework for a medium term prospective development strategy for=20
Haiti. The document outlines some of the major issues that warrant further =

discussion, and points in the direction of possible policy orientations.

This document is also in French and Kreyol.  Please do click in the=20
following link:
http://www.eclac.cl/cgi-bin/getProd.asp?xml=3D/publicaciones/xml/3/23303/P2=
3303.xml&xsl=3D/mexico/tpl/p9f.xsl&base=3D/mexico/tpl/top-bottom.xsl

For any addictional information, please contact me.

Regards,

Pedro

Pedro Cote
Coordinador de Comunicaciones
Sede Subregional de la CEPAL en M=E9xico
Tel=E9fono +52 55 5263 9714
Celular  +52 55 2109 7227 (044 55 en el Distrito Federal)
pedro.cote@cepal.org