Opinions and Policy Pieces

2025

A Prerequisite to Posterity: Empowering the Haitian State After Decades of Marginalization — THE INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS REVIEWSome 80% of public services are provided through NGOs, cyclically justifying disinvestment from the Haitian state and depriving it from growth opportunities. To ensure a future Haitian state is experienced and prepared for long-term governance and social services, NGOs must either instructively part

The L’Ouverture Investment Plan is Back, But Subject to American Interests — Haïti Policy HouseThere are reforms included in the revised L’Ouverture Investment Plan, now the L’Ouverture Economic Development Plan for Haiti, that are welcome additions, such as the anti-corruption measures. However, the persistent lack of international financial institution reforms and reparations, the truncated

Brief: Transforming the Haitian Economy through Targeted Trade Reform — Haïti Policy HouseForeign Policy Researcher Xiomara Jean-Louis provides a snapshot of the U.S.-Haitian trade infrastructure and its effects, while answering the following question: How can the U.S. instigate positive economic change in Haiti through targeted trade reforms?

Who Owns What? A Path to Business Transparency in Haiti — Haïti Policy HouseBeneficial ownership requires corporations to disclose who owns and benefits from their business operations. Take for instance, Florida Power & Light (FPL), a large American utilities company. With beneficial ownership, the company is required to list the individuals who own, or direct

2024

The Louverture Investment Plan is Missing Crucial Reforms | Opinions — Haïti Policy HouseThe L.I.P., when taken at face value, is an excellent idea. Many of the Haitian diaspora have called for similar “Marshall Plans” for Haiti. (Examples can be found here , here , and here .) It must also be said that the Plan is in its infancy, having just debuted and pending revisions in a pugnac

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