The feasibility of economic development in Haiti is the core subject of this Report. Indeed,
despite the prevailing despondency, the opportunities for Haiti are far more favourable than
those of the ‘fragile states’ with which it is habitually grouped. Due to the country’s location,
the governments of Haiti, the USA and Canada have a common interest in pursuing a
practical and focused agenda that delivers rapid improvements in socio-economic conditions and which scales up into longer term transformation. In stark contrast to other current
entanglements with fragile states, Haiti offers the American and Canadian governments a rare
opportunity to demonstrate that their support can lift a society decisively out of fragility.