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Author_Anthony V. Catanese
Baby Doc
Caribbean studies
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Downtown Port Au Prince
environmental degradation
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Experimental Tree Plantation
Haiti's environmental degradation
Haitian Americans
Haitian Army
Haitian Diaspora
Haitian diaspora community dynamics
Haitian Emigrants
Haitian migrants
Haitian poverty
Harvest Age
Household Head's Gender
Human Development Index
Human Suffering
Humanitarian Aid
Observable Household Characteristics
Papa Doc
Producer Surplus
refugee policy analysis
Religious NGO
Rural Haitians
rural poverty research
social science methodology
transnational migration
Typical Haitian
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367010553
- Weight: 450g
- Dimensions: 143 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 1981 I was asked by some DePauw University students to serve as faculty adviser for a group planning to work in rural Haiti during the nearly month-long interim term. I accepted the offer for several reasons. I had enjoyed being the faculty adviser for two previous work projects in Guatemala and Jamaica. I had found the experience was educationally valuable for undergraduates, and I could use it to enhance classroom learning during the semester. In addition, the experience of living and working in a radically different environment was intellectually stimulating for me as a social scientist interested in welfare economics. Finally, because such volunteer projects were rare in the early 1980s, I realized the opportunity should not be passed up. It was a chance to see a part of the world I had heard of but knew little or nothing about except from accounts found in newspaper and magazine articles.
