Haiti: Still waiting for recovery | The Economist. Three years after a devastating earthquake, the “Republic of NGOs” has become the country of the unemployed “HAITI is open for business”, Michel Martelly, the country’s president since May 2011, likes to proclaim. His government has backed up this talk by making it easier for foreigners to …
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The Evolution of Disaster Capitalism – YouTube. Beverly Bell, Kambale Musavuli, Adaner Usmani Tracie Washington. Moderated by Judith de los Santos The end of the first decade of the new millennium seems to have been marked by some of the worst natural disasters that has displaced and killed millions of people. Beginning with the earthquake …
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In Aiding Quake-Battered Haiti, Lofty Hopes and Hard Truths – NYTimes.com. Oxfam spent $96 million over two years and devoted a third to management and logistics. Doctors Without Borders spent 58 percent of its $135 million in 2010 on staff and transportation costs.
The garment industry is a global web of nightmares, where suppliers compete to offer their products at the lowest possible cost to stores like Walmart, The Gap and JCPenney. The cutthroat competition can mean starvation wages and unsafe conditions for the people working in sweatshops, the people who stitch, press and fold the T-shirts, pants …
Nearly three years after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, uncleared rubble and ruined buildings remain in downtown Port-au-Prince. Vegetable vendors worked amid the debris.
