Talk:Economy of Haiti

Help needed

This article needs dividing up, the text is one big huge section. Need more information about ideas to repair the economy. More information is needed in general.--MateoP 23:21, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Willing to resort

If no one objects, I would like to go through this article and sort it better. --MateoP 01:57, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Not ready for featured

I have contributed to this article some, I added the Labor section at the bottom and the graph, for example. However the majority of the text is copied from a public domain resource (not sure where) so I don't think the article is ready yet. I'm going to check out a couple of books from the library this weekend and hopefully contribute a little more. --MateoP 02:55, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

• In light of the comment that the majority of the text is copied, I have delisted it as a good article. CanadianCaesar The Republic Restored 21:22, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

• I hope that there is a problem with the line:

"A legal minimum wage of 36 gourds a day (about U.S. $1.80) applies to most workers in the formal sector."

Please tell me you were typing too fast, that it is 36 Haitian dollars= 180 gourds = 4.89 USD.

Please?

It appears the 36 gourds figure was correct for 1995, and was later raised to 70 gourds. [1][2] -- Beland 18:47, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

This is dated information. The minimum wage has been raised considerably, I believe it is now 200 HTG per day. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.7.27.194 (talk) 20:47, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Off-topics

Capitalism or socialism?

The WTO et al try to make Haiti to follow their restrictions, obligations and programs so that Haiti would be able to realize growth and modernization of it's economy. I ask: Why wouldn't Haiti create a democratically controlled economy independent of the global capitalist system? It isn't fully part of it now, so they would only have to choose to develop a socialist system instead of a capitalism one. It would be easier than in other countries, where the private ownership and utilization of the resources is already in place. Haiti would need democratic reforms and political apparatus to enable worker's control over the means of production, rather than a typical representation system, which makes bious agreements with the global capitalists. Teemu Ruskeepää 16:30, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a forum for political debate. We simply document the history, existing conditions, and notable proposals, and let readers decide for themselves what policies are best. -- Beland 18:49, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

GDP chart requested

A chart showing the history of the country's GDP would be informative. -- Beland

18:52, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

As was requested by user Beland I added some days ago the chart showing the history of GDP of Haiti. I made it as a part of an activity in a Design course at Politecnico di Milano. I hope it's going to work for the community. As written on it I took the GDP data from the World Bank Database. -- giovi_boy (talk) 19:46, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Updated stats

Updated economic statistics are available from the CIA World Factbook. -- Beland 19:05, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Factbook

Much of this is copied directly from the CIA factbook (word for word). Is that allowed? NO added by firered July 2019

"economic history" beginning in 1986

Seems a rather short history for a country that has existed for hundreds of years. Esn (talk) 11:10, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

I was coming here to say the same thing. Lets not just use US and IMF sources.--TM 18:07, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Economy of Haiti

The article mentions that Haiti is the "poorest in the Western Hemisphere." This issue has to be seriously addressed because the whole world (literally) is being misled as to what technically is also included in the Western hemisphere, which includes countries in Africa like Sierra Leone or Mauritania that are poorer than Haiti. It must be revised to "the poorest in the Americas" because that is factually accurate. This whole notion of Haiti being the poorest in the Western Hemisphere is simply not true! Let's get Wikipedia to be the first page on the internet that actually gets this fact right! Mbhskid520 (talk) 07:59, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Flagged as unbalanced: Explanation

I added the unbalanced tag in August, 2018, because I noticed in the references that "Much of this article is based on [public domain] material from the U.S. government." This could be improved with reliable, secondary sources. The U.S. has a history of interference in Haiti's trade and economy and thus should not be considered an unbiased source.

Haiti as a "free market economy"

Neither Forbes or cia.gov provide any source to back up the claim of Haiti as a "Free market economy". They might be primary sources, and doubting their validity is out of the scope of this talk. But they seem to state Haiti is a "free market economy" as a purely political statement. Haiti ranks bottom at Economic Freedom and Ease of Business, so using WP:COMMON I can see there's a clash of primary sources. I cannot find sources to back up the state of Haiti as a free market, other than Forbes or CIA. Are Forbes and cia.gov primary sources, even? Greenlucid (talk) 13:58, 3 February 2021 (UTC)