Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Comparing development in Dominican Republic and Haiti
Statistics
Comparing Incomes
- GNI: Haiti(1,657) Dominican Republic (12,756)
The impact of geography...
- GDP Per capita :Haiti(1,658) Dominican Republic (13,375)
- Both nations are located in the island of Hispaniola
- Population living below income poverty line: Haiti(53.9%) Dominican Republic (2.3%)
- Prone to tropical storms, hurricanes, earthquakes, and flooding
- Haiti’s strongest storm left 13% of the population in need of shelter, food, and medical care, killed about 1000, and left 175,000 Haitians homeless
Their History...
- Both were colonized by European nations until the 18th century
- The effects of colonization stunted initial developmental growth for both nations
- Haiti had to pay France reparations for their independence
Works Cited
Brown, Bryan. "Haiti in Crisis." Junior Scholastic, vol. 119, no. 6, 12 Dec. 2016, p. 4. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com.montgomerycollege.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=120682124&site=eds-live&scope=site.
Díaz, Kim. "Rafael Trujillo." Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, 2013. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com.montgomerycollege.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ers&AN=89098933&site=eds-live&scope=site.
"Dominican Republic." Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, 2017, p. 1p. 1. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com.montgomerycollege.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=funk&AN=DO073700&site=eds-live&scope=site.
Draper, Alan, and Ansil Ramsay. The Good Society: an Introduction to Comparative Politics. Pearson, 2016.
Leadership and Political Institutions
"Haiti." Haiti Country Review, July 2017, pp. 1-368. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com.montgomerycollege.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=121481420&site=eds-live&scope=site.
- Both nations went through a series of unstable political regimes
- Rafael Trujillo was known in Dominican Republic for being a brute leader
- Jean-Bertrand Artiside was the first democratic elected president