Sunday, February 26, 2023

Bottom-up Development in Haiti

Maguire, Robert, Bottom-up Development in Haiti, Second Edition, Rosslyn, VA.: Inter-American Foundation, April, 1981.

Available online.

Dr. Maguire retired in 2017 as a full-time professor of International Development Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, where he also directed the Latin American & Hemispheric Studies Program, the Brazil Initiative, and the Focus-on-Haiti Initiative. At the Elliott School, he created and taught a graduate seminar called, “Bottom-Up Development,” which he has continued to teach after retiring. Between 2001 and 2011, he taught at Trinity Washington University where he created and directed its International Affairs Program. From 1979 to 1999, he served as the Representative for Haiti and the Caribbean of the Inter-American Foundation, a U.S. government agency that supports grassroots, bottom-up development initiatives undertaken by local, community-based organizations. In 2000, he worked at the U.S. Department of State as Special Haiti Advisor. As a respected expert on Haiti and US-Haiti policy, he advises numerous U.S. Executive Branch agencies, the U.S. Congress, and various international organizations.

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