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	Haiti - GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY
		The 1820 unification of the nation entailed the abandonment of plantation agriculture and the establishment of a peasant-based agricultural economy.
		According to the United Nations (UN), Haiti was the only country in the world that did not experience real economic growth for most of the 1950s and the 1960s, a period when the world economy expanded at its most rapid rate in history.
		Haiti's fortunes soured in the 1980s, as real economic growth declined by 2.5 percent a year from 1980 to 1985.
	countrystudies.us /haiti/45.htm (1043 words)

	Haiti Economy \| globalEDGE
		Haiti remains the least-developed country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest in the world.
		The 1991 coup and the irresponsible economic and financial policies of the de facto regime resulted in a sharp economic decline from 1991-94.
		In November 2006, Haiti was approved for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) and reached decision point under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative.
	globaledge.msu.edu /countryInsights/economy.asp?countryID=131®ionID=4 (601 words)

	Economy Of Haiti
		The economy shrank an estimated 1.2% in 2001 and an estimated 0.9% in 2002.
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	www.appliedlanguage.com /country_guides/haiti_country_economy.shtml (425 words)

	Haiti (08/07)
		Haiti is the world's oldest fl republic and the second-oldest republic in the Western Hemisphere, after the United States.
		Although Haiti actively assisted the independence movements of many Latin American countries, the independent nation of former slaves was excluded from the hemisphere's first regional meeting of independent nations, in Panama in 1826, and did not receive U.S. diplomatic recognition until 1862.
		Haiti is one of the original members of the United Nations and several of its specialized and related agencies, as well as a member of the Organization of American States (OAS).
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/1982.htm (5782 words)

	Haiti - ECONOMY
		Haiti's economy continued to be fundamentally agricultural in the 1980s, although agriculture's role in the economy--as measured by its share of GDP, the labor force, and exports--had fallen sharply after 1950.
		Agriculture continued to be the mainstay of the economy in the late 1980s; it employed approximately 66 percent of the labor force and accounted for about 35 percent of GDP and for 24 percent of exports in 1987.
		Haiti's land density, that is, the number of people per square kilometer of arable land, jumped from 296 in 1965 to 408 by the mid-1980s-- a density greater than that in India.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/haiti/ECONOMY.html (10481 words)

	Haiti ECONOMY
		One of the richest colonial possessions based on its slave-operated sugar plantations, and site of the world's first successful slave revolt, Haiti is now one of the world's poorest countries, separated on the island of Hispanola from the prospering Dominican Republic by racial and linguistic divisions, and a river named Massacre.
		The accession of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1971 improved the economy, and between 1970 and 1979, the average annual growth of the GDP was 4%.
		In 2002, the US government (George W. Bush administration) continued to block aid to Haiti on condition that political reforms, specific arrests and disarmament would first have to be carried out, and sent assistance to the Dominican Republic to help their military seal their border against Haitian refugees along the Massacre River.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Americas/Haiti-ECONOMY.html (618 words)

	Haiti (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Haiti is so poor that the country, since gaining its independence in 1804 from France, has had a history of being poverty that it has had no records of inflation and therefore has no statistics for a Philipps Curve.
		Almost all of the coffee that Haiti exports is of the Arabic variety, and this coffee is a large source of revenue through taxes to the national government.
		Even though Haiti made a lot of money from the lumber industry for a short while, the long-term effect of deforestation is that their agricultural economy suffers more from floods that destroy crops than do droughts.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~dspencer/IntroEcon/Sec04Sp04/GroupPHaiti.htm (1551 words)

	Haiti - Gurupedia
		Haiti then established the world's first Black republic, making a commitment to end all slavery everywhere.
		Haiti has since become the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and has been plagued by political violence and corrupt dictators for most of its history.
		Haiti is a presidential republic with an elected president and National Assembly.
	www.gurupedia.com /h/ha/haiti.htm (831 words)

	Haiti Economy
		Haiti remains the least-developed country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest in the world.
		The 1991 coup and the irresponsible economic and financial policies of the de facto regime resulted in a sharp economic decline from 1991-94.
		Haiti's real GDP growth turned negative in FY 2001 after six years of growth.
	www.traveldocs.com /ht/economy.htm (677 words)

	Haiti's economy to benefit from IDB loans - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, is to benefit from a number of loans granted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) valued at US$161 million.
		Haiti's roads are in need of major reconstruction and modern transportation is vital to its economic ambitions.
		Haiti is particularly susceptible to flooding, and the recent spate of hurricanes caused major damage mainly because there were inadequate flood warnings.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /magazines/Business/html/20050811T210000-0500_85932_OBS_HAITI_S_ECONOMY_TO_BENEFIT_FROM_IDB_LOANS.asp (477 words)

	Trade and the Dissappearance of Haitian Rice
		Haiti's extremely low import tariff on rice is part of the trade liberalization policies which earned it a score of 1 on the IMF's 1999 Index of Trade Restrictive ness, making Haiti the least trade restrictive country in the Caribbean [9].
		Haiti's climate is typical of a tropical island; the temperature is warm all year round (ranging from an annual average 66° in the mountains to 81° at sea level) [43].
		Haiti is categorized as one of the least developed countries (LDC) because of its extreme poverty as evidenced by its low GDP per capita and other troubling economic indicators such as its large trade imbalance (see Table 3).
	www.american.edu /TED/haitirice.htm (6410 words)

	CNS STORY: Trade bill for Haiti hailed as trigger for turning around its economy
		By allowing Haiti duty-free access to sell goods that are made with fabric manufactured outside the United States or the Caribbean, the bill is expected to immediately trigger the reopening of factories that have closed over the last 20 years, he said.
		Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with an estimated 80 percent of its population living below the poverty line, and a per-capita annual income of about $440.
		An estimated 70 percent of the workforce is unemployed.
	www.catholicnews.com /data/stories/cns/0607059.htm (675 words)

	Haiti - Economy
		Two-thirds of all Haitians depend on the agriculture sector, mainly small-scale subsistence farming, and remain vulnerable to damage from frequent natural disasters, exacerbated by the country's widespread deforestation.
		Haiti suffers from rampant inflation, a lack of investment, and a severe trade deficit.
		In early 2005, Haiti paid its arrears to the World Bank, paving the way for reengagement with the Bank.
	www.exxun.com /Haiti/e_ec.html (472 words)

	Economy of Haiti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The modernization of Haiti's state-enterprises remains a controversial political issue in Haiti.
		Agriculture occupies the dominate position in Haiti's economy.
		Finding unemployment statistics from Haiti is very difficult because of the lack of publication of such data from the Haitian agencies in charge of collecting it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economy_of_Haiti (1906 words)

	Embassy of Haiti -Haitian Living Abroard, February 7 2003
		The Tenth Department contributes largely to the life and economy of Haiti, through remittances to their families (approximately $800 million annually), business ventures and charity programs, investing in business, shipping in of materials, and in their endless efforts to advance democracy in Haiti.
		Haiti's population stands at approximately 8 million, while the Tenth Department is believed to be close to 2.5 million, with the majority residing in the United States and the Dominican Republic.
		Although these refugees are outside of Haiti, the Haitian government continues to assume their responsibility to ensure the rights and well-being of their people as well as to receive them warmly if they are returned back to Haiti.
	www.haiti.org /Whatsnew/hla.htm (916 words)

	Economy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Haiti's underdevelopment is due mostly due to the cause of overpopulation.
		Instead of an export-centered economy, the country was and is still continuing to focus on an import-centered economy which forces the Haitians to continue to live in poverty.
		Haiti's final blow of underdevelopment occurred when the Duvalier's came into power in Haiti.
	iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/Spring03/Joseph/haiti_005.htm (409 words)

	Haiti Economy, Haiti People, Culture, Flag
		The flag of Haiti contains two equal horizontal bands of blue, at the top; and red with a centered white rectangle bearing the coat of arms, which contains a palm tree flanked by flags and two cannons above a scroll bearing the motto L'UNION FAIT LA FORCE (Union Makes Strength).
		Haiti has a third world economy where nearly 70% of the populace depends mainly on agriculture, which employs 68 percent of the labor force.
		In 2001 Haiti's per capita gross domestic product was very less, leading it to rank among the poorest countries.
	www.mapsofworld.com /country-profile/haiti1.html (381 words)

	USATODAY.com - Economy in Haiti on life support
		Six hundred miles from the richest country on Earth, Haiti is sliding to the bottom rung of the global ladder.
		Haiti's failure to crack down on cocaine trans-shipments from Colombia has led to U.S. pressure at international financial institutions to deny further aid money.
		The business sector is only about 14% of the economy, the rest consisting of farming, public works and government-provided services such as power and telecommunications.
	www.usatoday.com /money/world/2004-02-26-haitiecon_x.htm (999 words)

	Haiti: Political Economy of Haiti
		Haiti is so poor, so culturally different from our experience that our visitors often discuss what life must be like in the slums of Boston or Brooklyn (Haiti).
		One of the most surprising claims of his book is his challenge that much of the statistical data concurring the life of Haiti's poor is unreliable.
		He charges that international organizations gather data in terms with which they are familiar, and then extrapolate that data in sort of creative informed guesstimates which often reflect the attitudes toward the poor of the guessers, and the self-interests of the agencies for which they work.
	www.webster.edu /~corbetre/haiti/bookreviews/fass.htm (1394 words)

	CTH - Haiti Labor
		During the interim government period in Haiti (2004-2006) the CTH came under a sustained campaign of violence after refusing to support the 2004 ouster of Haiti's elected government.
		Haiti continues to be in need of a strengthened labor code and heightened minimum wage.
		Since her return to Haiti from her exile in St. Lucia in 2006 (after the inauguration of President Préval), she has been organizing to re-establish the networks and organization that had been in place.
	haitilabor.org (12316 words)

	Haiti - Republic of Haiti - Dayti, Haïti - Hispaniola - Caribbean
		Haiti is the western part of the island Hispaniola, which was an important strategic location in the 17th century used by the Spaniards and France.
		Today Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, the country has been plagued by political violence for most of its history.
		Constitution of the Republic of Haiti: March 1987.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/haiti.htm (751 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. trade act could offer needed boost to Haiti's economy - September 27, 2000
		Haiti, the Americas' poorest country, is one of 24 Caribbean and Central American nations that have applied to be eligible for enhanced trade preferences for the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA), scheduled to take effect October 1.
		Haiti is the last bastion of competitiveness in the Caribbean," he said.
		Haiti has become a major transshipment point and repository for drugs, primarily cocaine, moving from South America to the United States.
	www.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/09/27/haiti.economy.reut/index.html (894 words)

	Economy - Haiti - Caribbean: economy haiti, force manufacturing, services tourism, caribbean haiti, agriculture forestry
		Haiti’s economy has been shrinking since the early 1980s while the population has continued to grow.
		In 2000 Haiti’s per capita gross domestic product was $510.
		The international sanctions employed against Haiti’s military leaders from 1991 to 1994 further weakened the already crippled economy.
	www.countriesquest.com /caribbean/haiti/economy.htm (109 words)

	Haiti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Haiti became the second non-native country in the Americas (after the United States) when it declared its independence on January 1, 1804.
		Politics of Haiti takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, and of a pluriform multi-party system, whereby the President of Haiti is the head of state, while the Prime Minister is head of government.
		Haiti's official languages are French and Haitian Creole, however, Spanish is spoken near the border due to the proximity of the Dominican Republic and is increasingly being spoken westward from the border as Dominican and Cuban trade influence Haitian affairs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haiti (4221 words)

	Review of Simon Fass, Political Economy in Haiti
		Haiti is so poor, so culturally different from our experience that our visitors often discuss what life must be like in the slums of Boston or Brooklyn (Haiti).
		Simon Fass' POLITICAL ECONOMY IN HAITI: THE DRAMA OF SURVIVAL not only lets us inside the shacks of such people as a matmaker who survived selling 50 mats a week at a profit of 13 cents each, or a net monthly income of $6.50.
		He charges that international organizations gather data in terms with which they are familiar, and then extrapolate that data in sort of creative informed guesstimates which often reflect the attitudes toward the poor of the guessers, and the self-interests of the agencies for which they work.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/43a/118.html (1432 words)

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		The informal economy in Haiti has really become a viscous cycle - the very items keeping the unemployed alive through "informal" labor were what cost them their jobs in the first place.
		Plans to make Haiti the "Taiwan of the Caribbean" began in the 1980's, and money was loaned on the condition that it be used to set up export-oriented industries, more closely linking Haiti with other international economies.
		Haiti has the lowest import tariff in the hemisphere at 3%, and also the lowest percentage of food security in the world.
	www.haiti-progres.com /1999/sm991027/Eng1027.htm (1531 words)

	Refugees International: Countries: Haiti
		Haiti is currently in a political transition phase that is extremely fragile.
		For Haiti to climb out of the abyss of political violence, the U.S. and the international community must do more to help Haiti, and they must be prepared to engage in Haiti for an extended period of time.
		The economy of Haiti is still largely underdeveloped, with 80% of the population living in abject poverty.
	www.refugeesinternational.org /content/country/detail/2949 (959 words)

	Haiti: Economy
		Agriculture is the principal economic activity in Haiti.
		Most Haitians own and farm tiny plots of land, and great population density has caused rural poverty and is also a factor in the country's extensive deforestation, which has contributed to the degradation of agricultural land.
		Haiti's major exports are light manufactures and coffee; other exports include cotton, sugar, sisal, bauxite, and essences.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0858543.html (180 words)

	SICE - ECLAC - Economy of Haiti (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A number of different factors had an adverse effect on the economy, which had begun to show some positive signs in the first quarter.
		Political events locally also created uncertainty, contributing to the modest economic performance and causing delays in the adoption of the budget and amendments to certain laws, and, consequently, setbacks in the disbursement of conditional external support.
		Agriculture, which continues to be the mainstay of the Haitian economy, suffered a 2.4% decline caused by a drought that was especially severe in the north-east of the country.
	www.sice.oas.org /geograph/westernh/97/ovhai_e.asp (1194 words)

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