As the first liberated black country, why is Haiti so different from Dominica, which is on the same island?

Haiti and Dominica are located on an island called Espa?ola, which is the second largest island after Cuba. One of them is in the west and the other in the east, but the gap between rich and poor is huge. Haiti, as the first liberated black country, has a per capita GDP of just over 700 US dollars, while Dominica, as its neighbor, has a GDP of more than 7,000 US dollars. So why do the two neighboring countries have such a huge gap between rich and poor?

The public security conditions between the two are different

The public security conditions in Haiti are very poor, which can be regarded as a legacy of history, because military coups often occur in Haiti, and Haitian regimes change frequently. The society has been in turmoil for a long time, and the proliferation of guns in Haiti has made the environment in which people live unsafe. The United Nations peacekeeping forces had to send a large number of troops to station in order to maintain the security and stability of the country. The situation in Dominican Republic is different. The pioneering environment for economic development must have a solid basic environment, and the people's society must be stable before they can devote themselves to economic development. Nowadays, with its good public security, Dominica has attracted a lot of foreign investment and tourists.

The land quality of Dominica is better than that of Haiti

The land area of ??Dominica is 1.75 times that of Haiti. And they have vast valleys, the soil of which is very fertile, which allows their people to carry out agricultural cultivation. They also own the Caribbean coastline plains, and these plains allow them to vigorously develop sugar cane cultivation and provide a foundation. Looking back at Haiti, Haiti is not only small in area, but most of its land is made up of narrow plains and rivers. It stands to reason that places with rivers should be richer, but because their rivers are intertwined, the plains in the middle are rarely conducive to their economic activities. , and most of the country's population is engaged in agricultural activities, which means they are still in the agricultural period and have not yet entered the industrial period. Such a development situation will inevitably not make Haiti rich. Even if most people are engaged in agriculture, they still cannot be self-sufficient. It is because their industrial development is so backward that their agricultural production efficiency is low. ?

The quality of Dominica’s economic development is better than that of Haiti

As mentioned before, Haiti is mainly based on agriculture, so they are an actual agricultural country without a strong industrial infrastructure. , which makes it impossible for their economy to develop. This is just like China's agriculture. Nowadays, many people still use manpower or livestock to plow the fields. However, foreign countries have begun to use machines to plow the fields. The efficiency and value created are different. Dominica is no longer dependent on agriculture. It has also vigorously developed tourism, export processing industry and overseas remittance industry. All these have injected vigorous development power into his economy.

The quality of the population of Dominica is better than that of Haiti

Note that what is mentioned here is the quality of the population rather than the population, because the population of the two countries is not much different in quantity, but the quality is very different. Different places. 50% of the people in Haiti have no education, while the illiteracy rate in Dominica is only 10%. Education is very important to a country, which means whether it can learn advanced technologies and enlighten advanced ideas, thereby driving the entire country. National economic growth. Since Dominica has a large number of educated people, the overall quality of its citizens is very high. With these enlightened people, the country's economic development will naturally be faster and more effective than those with less civilized people.