Development Aid in Haiti: Paradoxical Responses to Territorial Imbalances
This study seeks to explain the local externalities generated by the territorial development aid system in Haiti. By taking into account the territorial levels in which the projects are carried out, it questions the distribution methods of financial and human flows in relation to the development needs expressed by the local populations. Two phenomena therefore attract attention: local actors interacting with other external actors (1) and local externalities from the introduction of local projects in the territories (2). In this paper, we propose an exploratory analysis of geo-referenced data which consists of a set of techniques allowing to describe and visualize the spatial distributions of local projects. Taking into account the socioeconomic externalities released by the development aid system refers to the phenomenon of spatial heterogeneity which characterizes local projects. The results of the analysis show the paradoxical response of development aid, which only increases the dependence of local actors on imported experts and reinforces territorial disparities.