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		<title>Haiti: the Cost of Elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Update for Week of 9/5 - 9/12]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Presidential elections everywhere are expensive. In the United States, current President Obama spent more than half-a-billion US dollars when he ran in 2008. That outrageous amount was largely raised through individual donations. Elections cost in other Caribbean countries are in the tens of millions. Haiti is very poor, yet, the cost of elections there is <a href="http://irsp.org/?p=2200"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Katrina and Goudou-Goudou, a Parallel on Decentralization Necessity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HPierre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haitians have dubbed the January 12, 2010, earthquake goudou-goudou, as a way to explain the shaking of the earth beneath them during those devastating 45 or more seconds. Since that time, much effort had been made by the international community to ensure that an already devastated country does not simply fall into the abyss. It <a href="http://irsp.org/?p=2193"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Taiwan Proposes to Help Haiti Build its Production Capacity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HPierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Writings on Haiti]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Update for Week of 9/5 - 9/12]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Focus Taiwan, a Taiwanese News Channel announced on Saturday, September 4, 2010, in an article published online that the Taiwanese Mission in Haiti will help Haitian chicken farmers work better at producing more chicken eggs. They will this way, not only increase their productive capacity but also, help reduce the country&#8217;s dependency on the Dominican <a href="http://irsp.org/?p=2186"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why Is Taiwan Out of the Nation-Building Efforts?</title>
		<link>http://irsp.org/?p=2165</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HPierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Writings on Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although everyone talks and writes about the rebuilding efforts in Haiti, IRSP Haiti experts prefer to call the post-earthquake projects spearheaded by the international community, a nation-building enterprise. We prefer to call it so because, besides the comprehensive efforts of a few Haitian leaders -Henri Christophe, Lysius Felicite Salomon, and Dumarsais Estime- no Haitian government <a href="http://irsp.org/?p=2165"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Haitian Students Get Scholarship in Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HPierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cursed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Writings on Haiti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a group of 10 Haitian students, all said to be very strong academically. After the January earthquake, the university system of Haiti already poor, has gotten even weaker. Canada decides to help, but in a way that is less conventional. As a way to help rebuild the country, the University of Quebec in <a href="http://irsp.org/?p=2159"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Some $55 Million for Haiti</title>
		<link>http://irsp.org/?p=2152</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HPierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Writings on Haiti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Bank has announced that Haiti will receive a $55 million grant, once the government process through the corresponding legal documents for that amount. Of that $55 million, 30 million dollars will come from the World Bank&#8217;s International Development Assistance unit (IDA), and the other $25 million will come from the Haiti Reconstruction Fund. <a href="http://irsp.org/?p=2152"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Voice of America, Quoting our Executive Director</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HPierre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[His credentials are well-established as a Haiti expert. In addition to running this nonprofit as its Executive Director and Founder, Hyppolite Pierre is also Haiti Country Specialist for Amnesty International USA, a position he has resigned from, effective Wednesday September 1, 2010. He is also the author of hundreds of articles and analytical pieces about <a href="http://irsp.org/?p=2117"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Candidate’s Rejection from Running for Presidential Office Brings Forth a More Serious Issue</title>
		<link>http://irsp.org/?p=2125</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HPierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hyppolite Pierre Last Friday&#8217;s rejection by the Haitian Electoral Council (CEP), of more than a dozen would-be presidential candidates, including Wyclef Jean and his uncle Ambassador Raymond Joseph, causes one to think of an even broader issue: the post-Duvalier Haitian political system. Although Wyclef Jean is now saying that he is appealing the decision, <a href="http://irsp.org/?p=2125"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti Reconstruction in Progress</title>
		<link>http://irsp.org/?p=2111</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HPierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Writings on Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recovery After Earthquake]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Caribbean newspaper Caribbean360 has published on Monday, August 23, 2010, in its online edition an article confirming that the Haitian Government has given the go-ahead to construction projects worth a total of US $220 million. This is good news for Haiti, considering that since the January 12, 2010, earthquake, all that have been done <a href="http://irsp.org/?p=2111"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Unsung Diaspora Heroes</title>
		<link>http://irsp.org/?p=2105</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HPierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Writings on Haiti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They have been at it for years: sending money back home and in reality, helping whole families live a middle class life that they would not have been able to afford otherwise; building schools; participating in community projects, and so on. As time went on, their visibility became so apparent that even world renown economists <a href="http://irsp.org/?p=2105"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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