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  "title": "Haiti: Selected Issues",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, June 24, 2015",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper examines opportunities and challenges for growth in Haiti. Achieving a sustained increase in living standards in Haiti will require deep-seated reforms across a range of areas.",
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      "content": "- This Selected Issues paper examines opportunities and challenges for growth in Haiti.\n- Achieving a sustained increase in living standards in Haiti will require deep-seated reforms across a range of areas.\n- Diversifying the export base is needed to cushion the impact of severe shocks that have reduced per capita income and prevented a sustained increase in the capital stock.\n- Integration into global-value chains would allow Haiti to take advantage of its proximity to the U.S. market and favorable trade preferences to:\n  - generate employment,\n  - spur the creation of human capital, and\n  - allow Haiti to begin climbing the value added chain."
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      "content": "- Severe shocks have reduced per capita income and prevented a sustained increase in the capital stock.\n- Haiti’s proximity to the U.S. market and favorable trade preferences present an opportunity for integration into global-value chains.\n- Diversification of the export base is identified as a priority to cushion the economy against shocks and support longer-term growth."
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      "heading": "Policy recommendations and implications",
      "content": "- Implement deep-seated reforms across a range of areas to achieve sustained increases in living standards.\n- Pursue strategies to diversify the export base to reduce vulnerability to shocks.\n- Promote integration into global-value chains to:\n  - generate employment,\n  - develop human capital, and\n  - move up the value added chain.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Haiti: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 15/158; May 6, 2015\n  - Haiti: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 15/158; May 6, 2015 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Haiti: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 15/158; May 6, 2015 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: June 24, 2015",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
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    "This Selected Issues paper examines opportunities and challenges for growth in Haiti.",
    "Achieving a sustained increase in living standards in Haiti will require deep-seated reforms across a range of areas.",
    "Diversifying the export base is needed to cushion the impact of severe shocks that have reduced per capita income and prevented a sustained increase in the capital stock.",
    "Integration into global-value chains would allow Haiti to take advantage of its proximity to the U.S. market and favorable trade preferences to:",
    "Severe shocks have reduced per capita income and prevented a sustained increase in the capital stock.",
    "Haiti’s proximity to the U.S. market and favorable trade preferences present an opportunity for integration into global-value chains.",
    "Diversification of the export base is identified as a priority to cushion the economy against shocks and support longer-term growth.",
    "Implement deep-seated reforms across a range of areas to achieve sustained increases in living standards.",
    "Pursue strategies to diversify the export base to reduce vulnerability to shocks.",
    "Promote integration into global-value chains to:",
    "**Haiti: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 15/158; May 6, 2015**"
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