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Historian Laurent Dubois of Duke University explains in his book, "Haiti: The Aftershocks of History," that by 1898, fully half of Haitis government budget went to paying France and the French banks. Large farms are rare, so production quantities are small. 2. But Biden has maintained some aspects of Trumps border policy. C.V. Starr & Co. Haiti is a free market economy [12] [13] with low labor costs. The major element is foreign remittances, reported as $931 million in 2002, primarily from the U.S. Foreign assistance, meanwhile, was $130 million in FY 2002. Labor laws are loosely enforced. Tradition guides economic decisions such as production and distribution. Accompanying broken politics is economic weakness. When President Aristide returned to Haiti, some improvements did occur in the manufacturing sector. Although FY 2003 began with the rapid decline of the gourde due to rumors that U.S. dollar deposit accounts would be nationalized and due to the withdrawal of fuel subsidies, the government successfully stabilized the gourde as it took the politically difficult decisions to float fuel prices freely according to world market prices and to raise interest rates. The assembly sector, heavily dependent on U.S. markets for its products, employed nearly 80,000 workers in the mid-1980s. But access, as ASU Chief Information Officer Lev Gonick explained, is a technical term; the Federal Communications Commission map of the United States will show a general area as having internet access, even if only one house in said area has connectivity. Georges Eddy Lucien, historian and professor at the Universit d'tat d'Hati (State University of Haiti) argues the U.S. occupation set in motion cycles of capital accumulation, inequality and migration for Haiti. Few countries have struggled with development like Haiti. Dengue and malaria run rampant, and cholera, introduced by UN peacekeepers from Nepal after the 2010 earthquake, has killed ten thousand people and infected nearly one million more. On the order of 80 percent of Haiti's population has been estimated to . Tradition guides economic decisions such as production and distribution. The government has yet to hold a presidential election after it was postponed several times.