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 Instagram:   / hoserforever   Twitter:   / h0serr   Business Email: [email protected] 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