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  "title": "Haiti: Recent Economic Developments",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, May 10, 1995",
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  "summary": "This paper reviews economic developments in Haiti during 1990–94. In the public finances, the current account of the nonfinancial public sector (before grants) shifted from balance in 1991 to a deficit of 3.8 percent of GDP in 1994.",
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    {
      "heading": "Summary of macro-fiscal developments (1990–94)",
      "content": "- Review period: 1990–94.\n- In the public finances, the current account of the nonfinancial public sector (before grants) shifted from balance in 1991 to a deficit of 3.8 percent of GDP in 1994.\n- With the lack of foreign financing, capital investment fell to low levels over the period.\n- The overall deficit (before grants) declined from 4.5 percent of GDP to 4.2 percent of GDP.\n- The deficit was financed mainly by recourse to central bank credit and the accumulation of arrears."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Key subjects and thematic coverage",
      "content": "- Balance of payments\n- Banking\n- Commercial banks\n- Current account balance\n- Economic sectors\n- Financial institutions\n- Imports\n- International trade\n- Public enterprises\n- Public sector"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Keywords (as listed in the source)",
      "content": "- cement company\n- central bank\n- Commercial banks\n- CR\n- Current account balance\n- debt ratio\n- expenditure control systems\n- factor payment\n- fiscal year\n- Imports\n- ISCR\n- long-term debt\n- primary sector\n- Public enterprises\n- Public sector\n- trade embargo\n- U.S. dollar\n- unit price\n- water supply company\n- Western Hemisphere\n\nSource: Haiti: Recent Economic Developments, May 10, 1995 — IMF Staff Country Reports. https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2016/12/30/haiti-recent-economic-developments-508"
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    "Published: May 10, 1995",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451817508.002",
    "Review period: 1990–94.",
    "In the public finances, the current account of the nonfinancial public sector (before grants) shifted from balance in 1991 to a deficit of 3.8 percent of GDP in 1994.",
    "With the lack of foreign financing, capital investment fell to low levels over the period.",
    "The overall deficit (before grants) declined from 4.5 percent of GDP to 4.2 percent of GDP.",
    "The deficit was financed mainly by recourse to central bank credit and the accumulation of arrears.",
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