Haiti: Enhanced Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries: Decision Point Document
IMF Staff Country Reports, December 14, 2006
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Bibliographic details
- Published: December 14, 2006
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451817652.002
Overview
- This paper presents an assessment of Haiti’s qualification for assistance under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative.
- Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) arrangement is scheduled to be discussed by the IMF Executive Board in parallel with this document.
- The government has begun the preparation of a full Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP).
Assessment and context
- The impact of prolonged political conflicts and violence, periods of high external assistance followed by the withdrawal of economic support, and natural disasters has been severe.
- An important objective of the authorities is to achieve robust and sustainable real economic growth.
Key themes and subject coverage
- Asset and liability management
- Debt relief
- Debt service
- Debt service ratios
- Expenditure
- External debt
Keywords and focus areas
- accounts audit
- audited government account
- Caribbean
- coalition government
- country
- CR
- debt management
- Debt relief
- Debt service
- Debt service ratios
- government
- government accounts audit
- government contract
- Haiti
- HIPC Initiative
- HIPC Initiative for Haiti
- ISCR
- macroeconomic program
- NPV of debt-to-exports ratio
- NPV terms
- public finance
- ratio
- Transition government