L’instabilité d’Haïti : le secret inavoué de la croissance dominicaine
Haiti’s Instability: The Dominican Republic’s Unspoken Engine of Growth By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson * The Dominican Republic sits beside one of the most severe humanitarian and security collapses in the Western Hemisphere. Yet, despite the proximity, despite the shared island, despite the daily flow of people and goods across the border, Santo Domingo has shown remarkably little interest in supporting a durable resolution to Haiti’s crisis. The reasons are not rooted in indifference alone. They are structural, economic, political — and, for Dominican leaders, brutally rational. A Crisis That Benefits the Dominican Economy The Dominican Republic’s economy has quietly adapted to Haiti’s collapse. As Haitian state capacity eroded, Dominican exports surged. In 2025 alone, $648.4 million in Dominican goods entered Haiti through just two crossings — Malpasse/Jimaní and Belladère/Elías Piña — corridors increasingly controlled by Haitian armed groups [1] . As the document not...
