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Rebuilding Haiti Requires New State-Building Strategy
Haiti's future prosperity and peace depend on its ability to build a more resilient state, one capable of providing public services like education and health care as well as responding effectively to natural disasters.
Aug 13, 2010
Multimedia
Keith Crane and Laurel Miller Discuss Building a More Resilient Haitian State
RAND Senior Economist Keith Crane and RAND Senior Political Scientist Laurel Miller discuss developing a Haitian state-building strategy. They identify the main challenges to more capable governance and suggest ways the influx of aid money can be used for long-term improvements, as well as offer other insights from their latest report, Building a More Resilient Haitian State.
Aug 13, 2010
Research Brief
Building a More Resilient Haitian State: Key Recommendations and Priorities
Haiti's future prosperity and peace require building a more effective, resilient state. RAND researchers identified Haiti's main challenges and recommended a set of state-building priorities that are necessary, feasible, and sustainable.
Aug 12, 2010
Report
Rebuilding Haiti Requires New State-Building Strategy
Haiti's future prosperity and peace depend on its ability to build a more resilient state, one capable of providing public services like education and health care as well as responding effectively to natural disasters.
Aug 6, 2010
Journal Article
Reflections on the Initial Multinational Response to the Earthquake in Haiti
Expert panel discussion of the emergency response in Haiti concluded that rigorous, objective after-action reports are needed both to improve ongoing operations in Haiti and to enhance future responses to large-scale population emergencies.
Jun 1, 2010
Commentary
A Month After the Earthquake: Opportunities Slipping Away
Previous efforts by the international community to stabilize Haiti have met with little or only short-term success. This time, following the earthquake, the U.S. response could actually leverage the response and recovery opportunities into a broader international plan, write Agnes Gereben Schaefer and Anita Chandra.
Feb 24, 2010
Testimony
Reconstructing Haiti
In testimony presented before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, James Dobbins discusses the current international disaster relief operation in Haiti and how it is affected by a preexisting post-conflict reconstruction mission, which he considers ultimately more important.
Jan 26, 2010
Commentary
Skip the Graft
The latest disaster to befall Haiti creates the opportunity to combine bipartisan accord on Haiti in Washington with keen and perhaps sustained American public interest, writes James Dobbins.
Jan 17, 2010
Journal Article
Height, Education and Later-Life Cognition in Latin America and the Caribbean
This study investigates the relationship between anthropometric markers (height and knee height), early-life conditions, education, and cognitive function in later life among urban elderly from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article
Reducing Inequities Among Children with Asthma in the Island of Puerto Rico: Experiences of a Community-Based, Trans-Sectoral Effort
This project has implemented successful interventions to improve the quality of life and reduce disparities for children with asthma in Puerto Rico.
Nov 1, 2009
Report
Justification and Options for Creating A U.S. Stability Police Force
Establishing security is the sine qua non of stability operations, since it is a prerequisite for reconstruction and development. Security requires a mix of military and police forces to deal with a range of threats from insurgents to criminal organizations. This research examines the creation of a high-end police force, which the authors call a Stability Police Force.
Mar 25, 2009
Dissertation
Getting the Policies Right: The Prioritization and Sequencing of Policies in Post-Conflict Countries
Examines how to prioritize and sequence political, social, and economic policies in post-conflict countries to sustain peace and reduce the risk of violence reoccurring.
Sep 3, 2007
Report
Nation-Building Efforts Hampered By Failures to Address Health Problems
The United States missed opportunities to help win the support of the public in Iraq and Afghanistan by failing to make health a bigger focus of reconstruction efforts after U.S.-led invasions of the nations.
Mar 15, 2006
Journal Article
Heterogeneity of Childhood Asthma Among Hispanic Children: Puerto Rican Children Bear a Disproportionate Burden
To estimate differences in asthma prevalence among Hispanic subgroups and non-Hispanic children living in the United States
Jan 1, 2006
Journal Article
Allies Against Asthma Coalitions: A Brief Overview: The Alianza Contra El Asma Pediatrica En Puerto Rico (ALIANZA)
The objectives of Alianza Contra el Asma Pediátrica en Puerto Rico (ALIANZA) focus on four strategic areas: empowering children with asthma and their families and/or caregivers; increasing community awareness and knowledge about asthma; improving access, quality, and financing of asthma health care services; and improving collaboration between the health care system, schools, child care centers, and other private and public community agencies.
Jan 1, 2006
Testimony
A Fresh Start for Haiti? Charting Future U.S. Haitian Relations
Testimony presented to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Narcotic Affairs on March 10, 2004.
Dec 21, 2004
Commentary
Elections and Nation-building
Published commentary by RAND staff.
Oct 20, 2004
Report
Cuba After Castro: Legacies, Challenges, and Impediments
Examines the political, social, and economic challenges the Cuban government and people will likely face in a post-Castro Cuba
Aug 15, 2004
Research Brief
A Legacy of Dysfunction: Cuba After Fidel
When Fidel Castro departs, Cuba will reach a crossroads. A post-Castro regime that attempts to remain communist may find itself in a cul-de-sac where old policies and instruments no longer work. If such a regime should falter, a democratic-leaning re...
Jan 1, 2004
Commentary
Leaving Iraq Too Soon Leads to Failure
If the United States wants to succeed in rebuilding Iraq, history shows it will need to keep forces stationed there for at least five to seven years - maybe longer.
Dec 10, 2003

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