Globe Trot: Jobs and quantifiable prosperity in Haiti

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A worker walks through the construction site of a Marriott hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Associated Press/Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery

Globe Trot: Jobs and quantifiable prosperity in Haiti

HAITI: I’m wrapping up nearly a week in Haiti looking at what works for Haitians in an aid-saturated economy. The good news is some efforts are working, producing jobs and quantifiable prosperity. More to come.

The fourth anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake on Sunday showed Haitians remembering, but moving on too.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says poverty is the “root cause” of terrorism, but if that’s true why isn’t there terrorism in Haiti?

EGYPT is in the midst of a constitutional referendum with lower voter turnout than expected.

TRINIDAD: Here’s my new year’s plug for Operation World, a great resource and a way to pray for a country a day if you like. For example: Christians in Trinidad, an island just off the coast of Venezuela, have urgent prayer needs.

Mindy Belz

Mindy is a former senior editor for WORLD Magazine and wrote the publication’s first cover story in 1986. She has covered wars in Syria, Afghanistan, Africa, and the Balkans, and she recounts some of her experiences in They Say We Are Infidels: On the Run From ISIS With Persecuted Christians in the Middle East. Mindy resides with her husband, Nat, in Asheville, N.C.

@MindyBelz