Haiti: Selected Issues

IMF Staff Country Reports, April 20, 2020

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Bibliographic details

• Published: April 20, 2020
• Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513541501.002

Overview and context

• Publication date: April 20, 2020.
• This Selected Issues paper focuses on Haiti near and medium-term challenges and policy priorities and was prepared before coronavirus disease 2019 became a global pandemic and resulted in unprecedented strains in global trade, commodity and financial markets.
• The outbreak has greatly amplified uncertainty and downside risks around the outlook. The IMF staff is closely monitoring the situation and will continue to work on assessing its impact and the related policy response in Haiti and globally.

Key findings on financial inclusion and rural finance

• The financial needs of the rural poor are currently sustained by microfinance institutions, financial cooperatives, humanitarian programs, and remittance providers.
• Greater financial inclusion could also be reached via solutions outside of traditional banking practices, including through fintech initiatives.

Inequality and gender issues

• Income inequality can hamper economic growth and development.
• Addressing gender inequality is necessary for generating broad-based and inclusive growth.
• Formal employment opportunities for women need to be expanded.
• Policy recommendation highlighted: implement the 30 percent quota reserved for women in public-sector appointments, which was introduced in 2012 but never enforced.

Subject areas covered

• Commodities, Education, Electricity, Fuel prices, Imports, Income inequality, International trade, National accounts, Prices.

Keywords and thematic markers

• Caribbean, CR, customs data, Electricity, export, fuel price, Fuel prices, Gini coefficient, government social spending, Haiti, Imports, income, Income inequality, income share, income-generating activity, inequality in Haiti, ISCR, per-capita GDP, price transmission effect, social policy, supply cost variation, trade, unrecorded imports, value.

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• Haiti: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 20/122; December 23, 2019
  • Haiti: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 20/122; December 23, 2019 (Markdown version)
  • Haiti: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 20/122; December 23, 2019 (PDF)