Resident Representative Office in Haiti
Ugo Fasano
IMF Office
Central Bank of Haiti
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Tel: 509-299-1026/1028/1023
Fax: 509-299-1027
E-mail: ufasano@imf.org
This site provides information on the activities of the Office and relations between Haiti and the IMF. Additional information can be found on the main country page, Haiti and the IMF, including official IMF reports and Executive Board documents that deal with Haiti. |
Latest IMF material on Haiti:
Factsheet - The Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility The Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) is the IMF's low-interest lending facility for low-income countries. PRGF-supported programs are underpinned by comprehensive country-owned poverty reduction strategies.
Factsheet - Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) are prepared by governments in low-income countries through a participatory process involving domestic stakeholders and external development partners, including the IMF and the World Bank. A PRSP describes the macroeconomic, structural and social policies and programs that a country will pursue over several years to promote broad-based growth and reduce poverty, as well as external financing needs and the associated sources of financing.
Factsheet - Debt Relief Under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative The HIPC Initiative is a comprehensive approach to debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries pursuing IMF- and World Bank-supported adjustment and reform programs. To date, debt reduction packages have been approved for 28 countries, 24 of them in Africa, providing $33 billion (net present value terms) in debt-service relief over time.
Factsheet - The Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) The Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) provides for 100 percent relief on eligible debt from three multilateral institutions to a group of low-income countries. The initiative is intended to help them advance toward the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which are focused on halving poverty by 2015.
Factsheet - The IMF and the Millennium Development Goals The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of development targets agreed by the international community, which center on halving poverty and improving the welfare of the world's poorest by 2015.
Factsheet - IMF Surveillance A core responsibility of the IMF is to promote a dialogue among its member countries on the national and international consequences of their economic and financial policies. This process of monitoring and consultation, normally referred to as “surveillance”, has evolved rapidly as the world economy has changed. IMF surveillance has also become increasingly open and transparent in recent years.
The Evolving Role of the IMF and its Dialogue with Parliamentarians by Graham Hacche, Deputy Director, External Relations Department, IMF -- Remarks at Seminar for Parliamentarians of the Kyrgyz Republic, Bishkek, May 19-20, 2006
The IMF -- A Presentation by Ugo Fasano, IMF Resident Representative in Haiti, March 2006
Strengthening the IMF's Support for Low-Income Countries
September 2005
Review of PRGF Program Design—Overview
August 8, 2005
Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF
Report on the Evaluation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and The Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF), July 6, 2004
Haiti: Selected Issues
Country Report No. 05/205
June 17, 2005