Corrupt Haitian Government receives U.S Aid to avoid Economic Collapse

Haiti continues to receive U.S. aid because its circumstances are direst among poor countries in the western hemisphere. According to Executive Director Bob Perito of consultancy company, The Perito Group, Haiti is bereft of education and health systems. It also has neither a sanitation system nor running water.

The U.S. continues to give Haiti aid because as Perito states "We're never going to solve the problems of Haiti if Haiti does not have a functioning government." To that end the U.S. distributes money to the Finance Ministry's budget and coerces the FM to administer funding to government agencies, who then initiate projects on behalf of the various ministries not serving the public trust as they should.

Not all governments, who don't sufficiently disclose the details of their budgets, are necessarily corrupt. But the State Department and taxpayers benefit from being ". . . able to evaluate how money is being used", the reason for FTR.

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