New Zealand centre right blogger David Farrar raises the question of why Haiti is significantly poorer than it’s immediate neighbour, the Dominican Republic, whose GDP per person is about six times higher (according to the CIA World Factbook Haiti has a GDP per person per capita of US$1,300 and the Dominican Republic $8,200).
One of the likely reasons that was only raised once in the comments thread (and conspiciously ignored) is that Haiti killed or expelled its white population at the time of independence and has not encouraged any of their desendents to return. Conversely, about 16 percent of the population of the Dominican Republic is white and over the last hundred years or so it has made a lot more effort to maintain reasonably good relations with influential majority white countries like the United States and Spain.
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