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N° 11, January 2010

Haiti´s recovery should start with cancelling its debt

Rebuilding the Haitian economy will require massive international investment, along with local ownership of the policy and reform agendas to ensure the revival of State capacities.

Given the scale of destruction, and Haiti´s precarious financial position even before the earthquake, international support for reconstruction must begin with a moratorium on debt servicing, followed quickly by its cancellation, UNCTAD argues in this policy brief.

Without such action - and without development assistance in the form of grants, and not loans - a new debt crisis is all but assured.
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1 UNCTAD Policy Briefs, No.11, Haiti’s recovery should start with cancelling its debt, 28/01/10 (UNCTAD/PRESS/PB/2010/1), 2 pages, 867KB


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2 UNCTAD Policy Briefs, No.10, The Palestinian economy: towards recovery and sustained growth, 18/12/09 (UNCTAD/PRESS/PB/2009/5), 2 pages, 835KB


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3 UNCTAD Policy Briefs, No.9, Climate change: Turning costs into income opportunities, 08/12/09 (UNCTAD/PRESS/PB/2009/4), 2 pages, 455KB


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4 UNCTAD Policy Briefs, No.8, Making South–South trade an engine for inclusive growth, 30/11/09 (UNCTAD/PRESS/PB/2009/3), 2 pages, 868KB


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5 UNCTAD Policy Briefs, No.7 , Keeping ODA afloat: no stone unturned, 07/03/09 (UNCTAD/PRESS/PB/2009/2), 2 pages, 524KB


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6 UNCTAD Policy Briefs, No.6, Sustaining African Agriculture - Organic Production, 10/02/09 (UNCTAD/PRESS/PB/2009/1/rev.1), 2 pages, 496KB


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7 UNCTAD Policy Briefs, No.5, Will we never learn?, 18/12/08 (UNCTAD/PRESS/PB/2008/5), 2 pages, 628KB


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8 UNCTAD Policy Briefs, No.4 , Rebuilding financial multilateralism, 24/10/08 (UNCTAD/PRESS/PB/2008/4), 2 pages, 610KB


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9 UNCTAD Policy Briefs, No.3, The crisis of a century , 06/10/08 (UNCTAD/PRESS/PB/2008/3), 2 pages, 498KB


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10 UNCTAD Policy Briefs, No.2 , Tackling the global food crisis, 02/06/08 (UNCTAD/PRESS/PB/2008/1), 2 pages, 515KB


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11 UNCTAD Policy Briefs, No.1 , Coping with financial market crisis, 26/10/07 (UNCTAD/PRESS/PB/2007/1), 2 pages, 426KB


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