Haiti: A brief report

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[...] Moreover, due to continuous exploitation and corruption, there is little civil trust in the state and the government, which generally has impeded a peaceful resolution to Haiti's vital problems (“Haiti Country Assistance Evaluation Report”). Consequently, there is virtually no transparency and accountability thus furthering public distrust (“Haiti Country Assistance Evaluation Report”). Nonetheless, without fundamental reforms to Haiti's political system, it will be practically impossible to attain economic development since the government must play a key role in establishing social, economic, and environmental policies to remove those obstacles obstructing economic success (“Haiti Country Assistance Evaluation Report”). [...]

[...] Haiti: A brief report In its early years as a wealthy French colony Haiti was the envy of European imperial powers; however, in the last two centuries it has undergone a major transformation from a blooming Caribbean colony to an economically, socially, environmentally, and politically troubled nation. Since the slave revolt of 1791 and subsequent independence in 1804, Haiti's history has been plagued by corrupt and destructive leadership as well as by a struggle for political power between the urban mulatto elites and the predominantly poor, black, rural community (Foster Haggerty, Tata, Weinstein 1). [...]

[...] As a result, low enrollment rates, high drop out rates, and poor overall quality of education plague the system and contribute to the low literacy rate which, at an estimated as of 2003, is one of the lowest in the Caribbean (Catanese, In addition, having a large rural population and an inefficient education system, Haiti suffers from a defective medical system, due to an intensive ‘brain drain', that is unable to provide adequate health care to most and no health services to about half of the population (Catanese 57, “Haiti Country Assistance Evaluation Report”). [...]