A Tale Of Two Islands

Why is Hispaniola divided between poor Haiti and the rich* Dominican?
Check out Mr. Beat's video here:    • The Dominican Republic and Haiti Compared  
And his channel too! @iammrbeat

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Some sources/further reading:
Broad overviews of Haiti and The DR:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://www.britannica.com/place/Hisp...
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hait...

Dominican Economic History:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2503536?...
http://www.dominicansugar.org/about-t...
https://countrystudies.us/dominican-r...
https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/4... (Modern Dominican growth)
https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/... (Modern growth)
https://photius.com/countries/dominic...

Haitian Economic History:
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlu... (Haitian revolution)
http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Henoc... (best one)
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/hait...
https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/...
https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication... (failure of foreign aid)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/ha...
https://reliefweb.int/report/haiti/ha...
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...
https://reparationscomm.org/reparatio...
https://oec.world/en/profile/country/hti