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  "title": "Haiti: Staff-Monitored Program-Press Release and Staff Report",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, January 24, 2025",
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  "summary": "This paper explores Haiti’s the Staff-Monitored Program (SMP). This new 12-month SMP is expected to contribute to strengthen macroeconomic stability to support well-being of people and to enhance economic resilience and governance.",
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      "heading": "Summary and purpose",
      "content": "- Explores Haiti’s Staff-Monitored Program (SMP).\n- The SMP is a new 12-month program expected to:\n  - contribute to strengthen macroeconomic stability to support well-being of people;\n  - enhance economic resilience and governance;\n  - anchor the government’s macroeconomic priorities for the year ahead.\n- IMF management welcomes the authorities’ commitment to publish the forthcoming Governance Diagnostic Report."
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      "heading": "Macroeconomic context and findings",
      "content": "- Haiti faces a multidimensional crisis and a political transition, with a challenging outlook.\n- Despite domestic and global difficulties, the authorities:\n  - are firmly committed to negotiating a new SMP;\n  - have managed to contain somewhat the impact of the various shocks, thereby averting even worse macroeconomic outcomes.\n- Top priority identified:\n  - continue to restore security — described as a prerequisite for macroeconomic stability and for allowing growth to materialize."
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      "heading": "Governance, reforms, and policy priorities",
      "content": "- Advancing governance reforms is paramount to:\n  - help Haiti exit from fragility;\n  - ensure inclusive growth;\n  - build trust with the private sector and development partners.\n- A government-led strategy to continue to strengthen the economy’s resilience to multiple shocks requires the financial support of the international community."
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    "Published: January 24, 2025",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400299070.002",
    "The SMP is a new 12-month program expected to:",
    "IMF management welcomes the authorities’ commitment to publish the forthcoming Governance Diagnostic Report.",
    "Haiti faces a multidimensional crisis and a political transition, with a challenging outlook.",
    "Despite domestic and global difficulties, the authorities:",
    "Top priority identified:",
    "Advancing governance reforms is paramount to:",
    "A government-led strategy to continue to strengthen the economy’s resilience to multiple shocks requires the financial support of the international community.",
    "Subjects: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Central banks, Credit, Crime, Expenditure, Foreign exchange, International reserves, Money, Public debt.",
    "Keywords: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), country authorities, Credit, debt forgiveness, Global, governance Diagnostic Report, government priority, Imf staff, International reserves, management of the International Monetary Fund, PROGRAM monitoring, SMP commitment, SMP lapse, transparency policy.",
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