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Beverly Bell and Other Worlds's Blog – February 2012 Archive (2)
“The Super Bowl of Disasters”: Profiting from crisis in post-earthquake Haiti
February 16, 2012
by Deepa Panchang, Beverly Bell, and Tory Field
As Americans were gearing up for last week’s Super Bowl championship, Haiti’s president Michel Martelly was on a plane to the World Economic Forum to recruit players interested in what one businessman dubbed “the Super Bowl of Disasters” – Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake.[1] The…
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"Best practices" and "exemplar communities": Ivory tower housing solutions for Haiti
By Deepa Panchang
February 2, 2012
In a 2011 Forum on the Crisis of Housing in Haiti, a group of camp residents and advocates asked “grassroots organizations and all other…
Added by Beverly Bell and Other Worlds on February 2, 2012 at 6:00pm — No Comments
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