Many people would argue that the journal, World Development, is one of the most pre-eminent publications in the field of development. Knowing that, I decided to search it for articles on Haiti. My search resulted in two articles that actually contain the word Haiti in the title: one on collective action and watershed management published in 1995 and the other on taxation in the coffee economy published in 1993.
In addition to these two Haiti-specific articles, my search produced another 244 articles that include content about Haiti or the Caribbean.
World Development started in 1973. It publishes a volume each year with an issue each month. Each issue contains anywhere between 8-15 articles. Let’s assume an average of 10 articles per issue. That’s 120 articles a year over a period of 36 years for a total of 4320 articles published since the beginning.
And only two have the word Haiti in the title. The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere is apparently of almost no interest to “mainstream” development scholars and experts.
Image: “New Mission, Laugon, Haiti,” from Flickr user glasshalffull91, licensed with Creative Commons.
anthropologyworks 
Kinda makes me wonder exactly what it is they mean when they use that wonderfully ambiguous word, “development.”
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