However, I will do what every academic does in such a case: provide you with a few scholarly sources. For Haitian scholarship, you can't go wrong with Jean Price-Mars. However, for matters pertaining to economic development (and the questions you have fielded) consult works of the trusted scholar Mats Lundahl. Although he is not Haitian, he is a scholar of Haiti (his publications contain bibliographic gold mines). Further up the thread, I posted a link to a JSTOR with some reviews of his. I will do you the favor of reproducing them here. You will find your answers in those books (I hope you can read french):
Review: Haitian Underdevelopment in a Historical Perspective Author(s): Mats Lundahl Reviewed work(s): Haiti. Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Periphere Gesellschaftsformation by Giovanni Caprio Haiti. Naturraumpotential und Entwicklung by Wolf Donner Ayiti-Potansyel Natirel e developman by Jeannot Hilaire Le Manifeste du Dernier Monde by Jean Jacques Honorat ... Source: Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Nov., 1982), pp. 465-475 Published by: Cambridge University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/156466
So long. "Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne
