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Haiti after the earthquake: today’s problems and today’s solutions. Part two of the Haiti Support Group round table.

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In part one of a special edition of the Radio NI podcast, Mario Joseph, Phillip Wearne and Anne McConnell talk about the historical context of Haiti’s problems.

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Mark Schuller, an expert on the relief effort after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, talks about the positive and negative aspects of NGO relief work in the two years since.

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Haiti is not just recovering from the earthquake but from the political and economic interventions of recent decades, as Phillip Wearne explains.

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A cartoon introduction to life in the camps in and around Port-au-Prince.

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More than $10 billion was raised worldwide for Haiti after the earthquake. But, two years on, what have NGOs done with the cash? Nick Harvey investigates.

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Costa Rica’s former President Oscar Arias Sanchez – who was instrumental in abolishing his own country’s army – explains why.

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A new vaccine could give hope to millions – if Big Pharma doesn’t get its hands on it first, says Iris Gonzales.

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A profile of the troubled Caribbean nation.

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When new Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer moved into Antigua’s government offices in 2004, his predecessors had bequeathed him a scene of desolation. Wilmoth Daniel, his deputy, explained that they found ‘the drawers open – all the files were removed like a thief in the night … What a shame of those individuals in authority to [remove] all those files, the soul and heart of the country.’

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Grenada’s revolutionary fair trade

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