{"id":6233,"date":"2016-09-26T17:48:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naahpconference.org\/?p=6233"},"modified":"2016-09-26T17:48:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:48:32","slug":"workforce-development-a-strategy-to-catapult-haitis-economic-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2016\/workforce-development-a-strategy-to-catapult-haitis-economic-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Workforce Development: A Strategy to catapult Haiti\u2019s Economic Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Location:\u00a0 144-146<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a study published in 2014, the World Bank reports that poverty eradication continues to be a major challenge for Haiti as 70% of Haitians are either living below or just above the poverty line.\u00a0\u00a0 This causes a large portion of the population to be extremely vulnerable to economic, natural, and political shocks.\u00a0 Specifically, the report states that 58% of the country\u2019s population is living in poverty, with 24% living in extreme poverty.<\/p>\n<p>The Haitian government, the international community, and other stakeholders have promoted economic development as an important tool to eradicate poverty in the Caribbean nation.\u00a0 While agree with this assertion, this panel will maintain that there cannot be economic development without workforce development&#8211;they are the two wings of the same bird.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Haiti is 41% and more than two thirds of the labor force do not hold a formal job (CIA World Factbook). These numbers are astronomical; they cannot be ignored.\u00a0\u00a0 Developing an integrated workforce development and economic development strategy, where the two complement one another, is paramount to curbing the unemployment rate and eradicating poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location:\u00a0 144-146 In a study published in 2014, the World Bank reports that poverty eradication continues to be a major challenge for Haiti as 70% of Haitians are either living below or just above the poverty line.\u00a0\u00a0 This causes a large portion of the population to be extremely vulnerable to economic, natural, and political shocks.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-panels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6234,"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions\/6234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}