Paul Collier's Plan for Economic Security in Haiti

The USIP Haiti Working Group continued its discussion on ending poverty in Haiti by presenting Professor Paul Collier. At the request of the UN Secretary General, Professor Paul Collier, author of the best selling book The Bottom Billion, traveled to Haiti to assist the government to develop a strategy for generating economic security. Professor Collier's findings, which relies on U.S. trade incentives to generate economic growth, could provide a blueprint for donor assistance to Haiti.

Speakers

• Professor Paul Collier
  Author of The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can be Done About It?
  Director of the Center for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University
• Yvonne Tsikata
  Country Director for the Caribbean, The World Bank
• Professor Robert Maguire
  U.S. Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow
  Director of the Haiti Study Program at Trinity University
• Robert Perito, Moderator
  Director of the Haiti Working Group, U.S. Institute of Peace