A Tale Of Two Islands

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Why is Hispaniola divided between poor Haiti and the rich* Dominican? Check out Mr. Beat's video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aH2j9pKhDw And his channel too! @iammrbeat Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoserforever/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/h0serr Business Email: [email protected] Some sources/further reading: Broad overviews of Haiti and The DR: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367240872_ON_THE_ORIGIN_OF_DIVERGENCES_BETWEEN_THE_DOMINICAN_REPUBLIC_AND_THE_REPUBLIC_OF_HAITI https://www.britannica.com/place/Hispaniola https://www.britannica.com/topic/Haitian-Revolution Dominican Economic History: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2503536?seq=3 http://www.dominicansugar.org/about-the-industry https://countrystudies.us/dominican-republic/36.htm https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/4e8eb10b-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/4e8eb10b-en (Modern Dominican growth) https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/s435_sum_e.pdf (Modern growth) https://photius.com/countries/dominican_republic/economy/dominican_republic_economy_growth_and_structure~1454.html Haitian Economic History: https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/20330/Final%20Thesis-McKey.pdf (Haitian revolution) http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Henochsberg2016.pdf (best one) https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/haitis-troubled-path-development https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/haiti/overview https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/aid-failures-haiti (failure of foreign aid) https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/haiti-reaches-a-breaking-point-as-the-economy-tanks-and-violence-soars https://reliefweb.int/report/haiti/haiti-economic-growth-and-agricultural-development-fact-sheet-2016 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123374267 https://reparationscomm.org/reparations-news/when-france-extorted-haiti-the-greatest-heist-in-history/ https://oec.world/en/profile/country/hti