ABSTRACT
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) proposed a twofold development strategy that called for using Haiti's low-wage comparative advantage to foster agroprocessing industries and assembly manufacturing production for export to the United States. The "free-marketeers" or neoliberals argue that Haiti's salvation lies in orienting production as much as possible toward the export market and in adopting free trade policies for the domestic market. This chapter argues that the policies of the IJSAID and the World Bank contain some positive recommendations that are compatible with progressive reforms. The USAID and World Bank identified such practices as obstacles to economic growth in Haiti and sought to change them. And with the demise of the Duvalier regime in 1986 came the opportunity to implement the USAID's and the World Bank- International Monetary Fund adjustment programs. There is no doubt that some of the reforms proposed by the World Bank could be included in any progressive program of social change in Haiti.
