Haiti's economy was severely impacted by the 2010 Haiti earthquake which occurred on January 12, 2010.

Haiti's economy stabilized in 2003.

According to World Bank statistics, the services sector is one of the few sectors of Haiti's economy that sustained steady, if modest, growth throughout the 1990s.

A United Nations trade embargo during Aristide's exile, intended to force the coup leaders to step down, was a strong blow to Haiti's already weak economy.

Despite enjoying widespread support by the majority of Haitians, the Washington Post informed their readers that regime change was looming on November 21, 2003: " Aristide has pushed with mixed success a populist agenda of higher minimum wages, school construction, literacy programs, higher taxes on the rich and other policies that have angered an opposition movement run largely by a mulatto elite that has traditionally controlled Haiti's economy.

Dessalines believed in the tight regulation of foreign trade, which was essential for Haiti's sugar and coffee based export economy.

In addition, the nascent state's future was practically " mortgaged " to French banks in the 1820s, as it was forced to make massive reparations to French slaveholders in order to receive French recognition and end the nation's political and economic isolation .< ref name =" autogenerated1 "> These payments may have permanently affected Haiti's economy and wealth.

After returning to Haiti in 1986 he opposed the Reagan administration's plan to industrialize Haiti's heavily agrarian economy.

Gonaïves is also known as Haiti's City of Independence because it was there that Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared Haiti, the former Saint-Domingue, independent from France on January 1, 1804 by reading the Act of Independence, drafted by Boisrond Tonnerre, on the Place d ' Armes of the town.

On January 16, 2010, Bubba made remarks on his Twitter account that were disparaging of Haiti's struggle to recover from the January 12 earthquake.

In January 2010, Pope Benedict XVI invoked Our Lady of Perpetual Help for Haiti's earthquake relief through Archbishop Louis Kebreau.

On January 25, 2006, Haiti's election authorities announced that no voting stations would be placed in Cité Soleil, an impoverished area which holds between three and six hundred thousand residents and has been controlled by informal armies professing allegiance to Aristide ; registered voters from Cité Soleil had to leave their neighborhood to vote.

In response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, U. S. President Barack Obama announced that Clinton and George W. Bush would coordinate efforts to raise funds for Haiti's recovery.

On August 20, 2010, his bid for candidacy was rejected by Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council.

After Haiti's 2010 earthquake, President Preval gave the Inter-American Development Bank the mandate to work with the Education Ministry and the National Commission preparing a major reform of the Education System in a 5-year plan to reconstruct ; Mr. Vallas has been working with the bank in this effort.

After Haiti's 2010 earthquake, President Preval gave the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB the mandate to work with the Education Ministry and the National Commission preparing a major reform of the Education System in a 5-year plan.

Sam was the commander of Haiti's Northern Division when he led the revolt that brought President Cincinnatus Leconte to power.

As a member of CARICOM, in July 1994 Dominica strongly backed efforts by the United States to implement UN Security Council Resolution 940, designed to facilitate the departure of Haiti's de facto authorities from power.

As of 2007, less than 1 % of Haiti's forests remained.

* 1991 – Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.

As a member of CARICOM Grenada strongly backed efforts by the United States to implement UN Security Council Resolution 940, designed to facilitate the departure of Haiti's de facto authorities from power.

Jean Jacques Dessalines became Haiti's first emperor in 1804.

The debt to France was finally repaid in 1879, and Michel Domingue's government peacefully transferred power to Lysius Salomon, one of Haiti's abler leaders.

However, efforts to develop commercial agriculture had limited success, in part because much of Haiti's labor force was employed as seasonal workers in the more-established sugar industries of Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

The Great Depression decimated the prices of Haiti's exports, and destroyed the tenuous gains of the previous decade.

The US retained control of Haiti's external finances until 1947.

At the same time, many in the growing black professional classes departed from the traditional veneration of Haiti's French cultural heritage and emphasized the nation's African roots, most notably ethnologist Jean Price-Mars and the journal Les Griots, edited by Dr. François Duvalier.

The Garde was a national organization ; it departed from the regionalism that had characterized most of Haiti's previous armies.

Lescot commonly said that Haiti's declared state-of-war against the Axis powers during World War II justified his repressive actions.

The Revolution of 1946 was a novel development in Haiti's history, as the Garde assumed power as an institution, not as the instrument of a particular commander.

All three understood Haiti's traditional way of exercising power, but they lacked a thorough understanding of what would be required to make the transition to an elected civilian government.

Estimé's election represented a break with Haiti's political tradition.

Operating under a new constitution that went into effect in November 1946, Estimé proposed, but never secured passage of, Haiti's first social-security legislation.

Duvalier's policies, designed to end the dominance of the mulatto elite over the nation's economic and political life, led to massive emigration of educated people, deepening Haiti's economic and social problems.

Under Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haiti's economic and political condition continued to decline, although some of the more fearsome elements of his father's regime were abolished.

In July 1994, as repression mounted in Haiti and a civilian human rights monitoring mission was expelled from the country, the United Nations Security Council adopted United Nations Security Council Resolution 940, which authorized member states to use all necessary means to facilitate the departure of Haiti's military leadership and to restore Haiti's constitutionally elected government to power.

The earthquake caused massive devastation, with most buildings crumbled, including Haiti's presidential palace.

Robertson claimed that Haiti's founders had sworn a " pact to the Devil " in order to liberate themselves from the French slave owners and indirectly attributed the earthquake to the consequences of the Haitian people being " cursed " for doing so.

Buenos Aires newspaper, Página / 12, reported that Athésia's presence was considered important for raising awareness of Haiti's plight after the earthquake.

Poverty, corruption, and poor access to education for much of the population are among Haiti's most serious disadvantages.

One very significant economic obstacle in Haiti's early independence was its necessary payment of 150 million francs to France beginning in 1825 ; this did much to drain the country of its capital stock.

For much of Haiti's nearly 200-year history as a republic, a rigid social and economic caste system has been based largely on the lightness of one's skin.