Rebuilding Haiti: a new approach to international cooperation

This policy brief presents the Haiti earthquake as an opportunity to correct past mistakes and promote a more strategic and inclusive policy vision aiming to move the Haitian economy from recovery to a more sustainable economic growth and development path. It argues that a new approach is needed for Haiti’s reconstruction and long-term economic development, which targets investment in productive capacity and infrastructure, improved market access, domestic resource mobilization, and greater agricultural productivity, and intends to constitute an integrated approach to macroeconomic, industrial and trade policy to generate employment and reduce poverty.