Haiti Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Personal income=== [[File:CapHaitienMarche.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|A market in [[Cap-Haïtien]]]] Haiti suffers from a shortage of skilled labor, widespread unemployment, and underemployment. Most Haitians in the labor force have informal jobs. Three-quarters of the population lives on US$2 or less per day.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/haiti/|title=The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency|website=cia.gov|access-date=12 December 2016}}</ref> [[Remittances]] from Haitians living abroad are the primary source of foreign exchange, equaling one-fifth (20%) of GDP and more than five times the earnings from exports as of 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=The World Factbook |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/haiti/ |work=cia.gov |access-date=24 May 2015}}</ref> In 2004, 80% or more of college graduates from Haiti were living abroad.<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110423034022/http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21109448~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html?cid=3001 |archive-date=23 April 2011 |url=http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21109448~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html?cid=3001 |publisher=[[World Bank]] |title=Latin America Shouldn't Bet Everything On Remittances |date=31 October 2006 |url-status=live }}</ref> Occasionally, families who are unable to care for children may send them to live with a wealthier family as a ''[[restavek]]'', or [[house servant]]. In return the family are supposed to ensure that the child is educated and provided with food and shelter; however, the system is open to abuse and has proved controversial, with some likening it to child slavery.<ref name="kennedy14">{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1353/hrq.2014.0059| title = Toward Effective Intervention for Haiti's Former Child Slaves| journal = Human Rights Quarterly| volume = 36| issue = 4| pages = 756–778| year = 2014| last1 = Kennedy | first1 = C. L. | s2cid = 144412249}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.haiti-now.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Report-Haiti-Child-Domestic-Workers-31072015.pdf|title=Child Domestic Workers in Haiti 2014|last=Sommerfelt|first=Tone|date=October 2014|website=haiti-now.org}}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page