Republic of Haiti, and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, to the east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic. To its south-west lies the small Navassa Island, which is claimed by Haiti but is disputed as a United States territory under federal administration
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It's a free market economy with low labor costs. Haiti's estimated population in 2018 was 11,439,646. The Economist wrote in 2010: Long known as the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, It has stumbled from one crisis to another since the Duvalier years. Its major trading partner is the United States, which provides the country with preferential trade access to the US market through the Haiti Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement (HOPE) and (HELP)
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