Archives septembre 2011. Pour ceux qui lisent l'anglais le récit assez comique - et tragique surtout rétrospectivement - des allocutions bourrées de promesses des intervenants dont le patron de la BID, Moreno, lors de l'inauguration de Caracol

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Inauguration de Caracole : Martelly, Moreno, WJC et HC

Luis Alberto Moreno, the president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), follows, declaring that the five-month President”inspired us all.” (I’m hoping I misheard that and that he was really referencing WJC.) He then goes on to talk about “Juan Valdez” and the Colombian coffee industry. I cannot tell if the audience is too polite, too young (doesn’t look like the way to bet), or just too stunned. But he goes on to make good points about possible developments that would not be dependent on the rag trade.

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CGI 2011: Haiti Development Workshop

“The winner” in Haitian development created 12,000 jobs in the garment industry in the past eight years in Haiti. Seems as if all of the participants today will be garment manufacturers, though WJC notes that companies such as Coca-Cola and Newmont Mining are also considering investment.

When I sent an email out indicating that I was thinking of attending, the best response I got to questions you would like to ask was “Is Haiti doomed forever to be the developed world’s sweat shop? Will it ever be allowed to have an agricultural economy of its own?”

Only 43% of the aid pledged after the earthquake nearly two years ago has been disbursed today. (Take that, “shovel-ready” complainers!) WJC: “Haiti will not have a sustainable economy unless there are new investments, new jobs, and new business.” President Clinton describes the disaster as “best opportunity in my lifetime” for the country.” (I’m guessing this is in the same way as education privatization has worked in New Orleans since Katrina.) Most of the donor monies have not gone through the local institutions, but President Martelly is determined to have local government integrated in the discussions.

As an example of the problems before the earthquake, WJC notes that there was no market in lending—even mortgage lending—in the country before now.

WJC describes Donna Karan as “Haiti has taken over her life to the extent that I am now a back-bencher.” I think this is a positive statement. Also gets a pledge for development from the new group run by Mohammed Yunus (who I interviewed at the 2009 CGI) and one other group [update: Zafen appears to be the other Commitment].

WJC, leading up to the President of Haiti, mentions that W. described the President of the United States as the “decider in chief.” Clinton said that he rather agrees with that statement, noting of Martelly that “This man will make a decision.” He also declares that most of them have been good ones, something he did not say, at least now, about GWB.

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