## Haiti: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation

_IMF Staff Country Reports, September 24, 1999_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: September 24, 1999
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451817539.002

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### Summary of main findings
- Progress on structural reforms in Haiti in FY1998/99 has been mixed.
- In the financial sector, the central bank’s supervisory capacity and the regulatory framework continued to be strengthened.
- Performance under the FY1997/98 Staff-Monitored Program (year ending in September) was satisfactory.
- As a result of firm policy implementation:
  - inflation was reduced,
  - the external current account deficit narrowed,
  - official net international reserves rose.
- Output growth picked up to about 3 percent.
- Credit policy was tighter than programmed, although the fiscal deficit was slightly higher than in the program.

### Thematic observations
- Financial sector:
  - Strengthening of the central bank’s supervisory capacity.
  - Continued improvement in the regulatory framework.
- Macroeconomic outcomes:
  - Reduction in inflation (no numerical rate provided in source).
  - Narrowing of the external current account deficit (no numerical value provided).
  - Rise in official net international reserves (no numerical value provided).
  - Output growth improved to about 3 percent.
- Program implementation:
  - Overall satisfactory performance under the FY1997/98 Staff-Monitored Program (year ending in September).
  - Credit policy implemented more tightly than programmed.
  - Fiscal deficit ended up slightly higher than programmed.

### Publication metadata (from source)
- Pages: 48
- Volume: 1999
- Issue: 105
- Series: Country Report No. 1999/105
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451817539.002
- Stock No: 1HTIEA0011999
- ISBN: 9781451817539
- ISSN: 1934-7685
- Notes: Included with the Staff Report are the text of Public Information Notice No. 99/92--IMF Concludes Article IV Consultation with Haiti and a Statement by Murilo Portugal, Executive Director and Vishnu Dhanpaul, Assistant, on September 3, 1999.

*Haiti: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation, September 24, 1999*

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