Modern Diaspora City in Haiti
What it is not?:
The Diaspora Plan for Haiti is an empirical proposal; it is not a political solution.
The Diaspora Plan for Haiti is an economic investment plan
based on the belief that economic progress can be achieved in Haiti however small it may
be if the Diaspora throws its weight around though a realistic plan despite the lack of
political stability in Haiti.
Preliminaries:
To succeed a plan must be efficient and sustainable. It also must be simple enough so that
a majority of Diaspora Haitians can comprehend it. There are essentially three ways the
Haitian Diaspora can participate in investing and spurring economic growth in Haiti:
- Returning to Haiti to work, teach, and open up a business.
- Buy made in Haiti while living and working in the Diaspora.
- Participate in a mutual fund: US-based mutual funds or
Haiti-based mutual funds.
Returning to Haiti:
( Let us debate and reach a final compromise)
Returning Diasporas should be able to borrow money from the
mutual funds or from private banks operating in Haiti to open up businesses.
Mutual funds will only support vital economic areas with
high growth potential of job creation and wealth building; only vital economic areas
attainable by private Diaspora investments.
Diaspora Personal Cash deposits into private banks in Haiti
can serve as an assurance against bank loans.
A final sensible list of Haiti’s vital economic areas
is up for debate.
- Media, Education, Agricultural production, Housing &
Construction, Electric Power Generation etc…
Buy made in Haiti:
( Let us debate and reach a final compromise)
Mutual funds for investment in Haiti:
( Let us debate and reach a final compromise)
- US based mutual funds
- Haitian private banks’ mutual funds
- Personal Cash Deposit in private banks in Haiti
Modern Diaspora in Haiti:
(See below)
Double citizenship is a not priority for most of the
Haitian Diaspora. Most of us will not return home to live but home is always in our
hearts. The Haitian Diaspora needs to seat in the Haitian parliament. The Haitian Diaspora
warrants its own representation in the parliament. Keeping the idea simple, the Haitian
Diaspora should be able to elect a deputy for any foreign city/state where over a 100,000
Haitians live and the Diaspora should also be able to elect our three Senators to
represent the whole Diaspora.
Conclusion:
One day someone challenged me to come up with a plan that could spur economic growth in
Haiti without relying on the participation from a sitting progressive Haitian government.
Well, in all my empirical proposals, the direct participation of and the over reliance on
Haitian government’s inputs are conspicuously omitted. Yes, Haiti can prosper in the
face of political instability and a lack of progressive government. All it takes is your
willingness to participate directly in contributing to a better Haiti.
Haiti needs a modern city built from the ground up that
Haitians can be proud of.
It is a terrific long term investment that all Haitians can
benefit from especially the Haitian Diaspora.
It could be financed from a US-based mutual fund with
participation from private banks operating in Haiti.
Housing is a vital economic area with high growth potential
of job creation and wealth building.
A modern Diaspora city in Haiti can help increase the
Haitian private banks’ money supply by capturing some of the yearly Haitian Diaspora
remittances of over $1.5 billions. (There is a linear relationship between the money
supply and economic growth in free market economy.)
Petionville is not a modern city.
Petionville was not inaugurated in 1831 to accommodate the
average Haitian.
We need a modern city in the honor and to the memory of one
of our other heroes: Christopheville, Capoixville, Firminville, Batraville,
MarieJeanneville, etc…
Most returning Haitian Diaspora would want to settle in an
affordable city where the dwellings have reliable indoor running water; in a city with
paved streets, sidewalks, grass and public squares.
International construction companies can design, break
ground and erect a city in less than a year after contract signing.
