Posts belonging to Category Haiti economy
Posted by Cassandra on March 5, 2010
DePaul University is collaborating on a microfinance program designed to increase investment in the country’s economy, DePaul Magazine writer Ruhan Memishi reports. Working with Vincentian organizations worldwide, DePaul hopes to lay the foundation to “give Haitians seed money to create and develop small businesses that will make a big difference.” The program, called Zafen, is [...]
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Posted by Cassandra on January 30, 2010
Last night, we attended a fundraiser for Haiti’s artists at the Nicole Gallery in Chicago. Haitian-born Nicole Smith founded the gallery in 1986. She began her career in 1971 as curator at the Le Centre D’Art de Port-au-Prince. Until the center was decimated by the Jan. 12 earthquake, it was Haiti’s sole arts center. American-born [...]
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Posted by Cassandra on January 21, 2010
As tens of thousands of Haitians struggle to recover from the horrific physical injuries they sustained in the Jan. 12 earthquake, their economy is suffering massive wounds of its own. Haiti’s “crippled” government expects the country’s economic output to plunge 25 percent this year, bloomberg.com reports. The 7.0 temblor that rocked the island caused tremendous [...]
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