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The New York Times is Wrong About Haiti
The New York Times recently published a series of articles about the history of Haiti.
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Don't Believe the Haiti/DR Graph
The graph is wrong.
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Why is Latin America so violent?
A new natural experiment
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How did 30,000 Haitians get to Texas?
After the assassination of Haiti’s president and a significant earthquake in Haiti’s southern peninsula, the logical next step seemed to be thousands of…
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De Soto Got his Wish in Haiti
But it didn't go well
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How did Haitians affect the Chilean labor market?
This is a summary of a paper by Alessandra Anna Palazzo, an economics graduate student at University of Maryland.
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Kot Kòb Societé yo?
When running for president in 2016, Donald Trump infamously said, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose…
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Will ending birthright citizenship incur the plagues of Egypt?
Trump has signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship for certain children of immigrants. But an unprecedented policy experiment in the…
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No One Wants to Help Haiti
But one thing will get America to help
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Haiti's Dire Situation in 4 Graphs
Last week I was sitting down to lunch with a new friend from Haiti, and it was a bizarre experience.
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Haiti's Dire Situation in Graphs (2025 Edition)
I’m falling into an unfortunate tradition of annually updating the graphs of how bad Haiti’s situation is.
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Will USAID's Demise Lead to Self-Reliant Countries?
To the surprise of many, one of the Trump administration's first actions was to systematically dismantle US Agency for International Development…
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