Between 2000 and 2012, extreme poverty fell from 31% to 24%, but the high level of vulnerability threatens these improvements. A few weeks before commemorating the fifth anniversary of its most ...

A new World Bank study looking at poverty trends in Haiti over 12 years is calling on the government to do more to shore up the gains, and help Haitians get out of extreme poverty.

Haiti is facing a profound political and economic crisis. Functional governance that serves the interests of Haiti’s people is largely nonexistent. One of the necessities to overcome this crisis ...

Haiti suffers from both the worst poverty and highest child mortality rates in the Western Hemisphere. The purpose of this investigation was to assess the relationship of child mortality to ...

On the hills of Port-au-Prince, a chaotic jumble of structures stretches ever farther into the distance: Haiti's capital is suffering under the weight of ...

CHAMBRUN, Haiti - Haiti is a country of contradictions. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, but just beyond the horrific scenes of poverty are some of the grandest mountain vistas ...

Kidnapping in Haiti has become so common that radio stations often broadcast pleas for help.

In the next installment of a series on fragile states, special correspondent Kira Kay reports on Haiti's struggle to overcome years of political turmoil and severe poverty.

LES ANGLAIS, Haiti -- Little comes easy in this tiny coastal village where kids fill plastic buckets with charcoal to sell at market and women sweep bean pods into tidy mounds alongside pastel ...

The Haiti earthquake is not a natural-disaster story, writes columnist David Brooks. It is a poverty story. President Obama is going to have to use this tragedy to acknowledge a few difficult ...