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Jacob Kushner

Jacob Kushner

Jacob Kushner is an investigative journalist with experience in East and Central Africa and the Caribbean. He reports on development economics and inequality, foreign aid and investment, governance and innovation in developing nations, and immigration.
Americas

Haiti’s road to recovery

LES CAYES, Haiti — For years, the road from here to the coastal city of Jérémie has been...

Jun 28, 2012
Americas

The Multiplier Effect: Driving Haiti’s recovery by spending aid dollars locally

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Just days after a cholera epidemic began infecting thousands of Haitians in October 2010, Salim...

May 11, 2012
Americas

Haitian farmers call on US to stop subsidizing its own

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Deep within Haiti’s beautiful Artibonite Valley, a man wades barefoot through loose mud that comes...

Apr 12, 2012
Americas

Four months and $2M US tax dollars later, Haiti’s new Parliament building sits unfinished

by Jacob Kushner and Jean Pharés Jérôme PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — One Friday last November, US Ambassador to Haiti...

Mar 19, 2012
Americas

Post-quake US food aid hurt Haiti farmers

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In the months following Haiti’s devastating January 2010 earthquake, the United States government spent $140...

Feb 13, 2012
Americas

Haiti’s politics of blame

PORT-AU-PRINCE — For all the talk about a Haitian people who have grown impatient with the slow pace of...

Jan 13, 2012
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