As Haiti continues to rebuild three years after it was pummeled by a catastrophic earthquake, Haitian officials are looking towards factory jobs in the garment sector to cure the island of its 40% unemployment rate. For Haiti's largely unskilled population, government officials see garment sector jobs as a means to a better end for the Haitian people. The garment industry has experienced continuous growth in the last four to five years. Though Haitian textiles are in direct competition with cheaper-made textiles from countries such as Bangladesh, officials believe that Haiti's advantage lies in that it does not employ child laborers.
See "Haiti's employment push turns to textiles as farming tradition uprooted", Rashmee Roshan Lall, Guardian Unlimited (UK), August 20, 2013