## Haiti: Technical Assistance Report—Governance Diagnostic Report

_Technical Assistance Reports, April 9, 2025_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: April 9, 2025
- Series: Technical Assistance Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229007801.019

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### Overview
- Prepared by IMF staff at the request of the Haitian authorities.
- Date of publication: April 9, 2025.
- Pages: 67.
- Series: Technical Assistance Report No. 2025/039.
- Issue: 039.
- Volume: 2025.
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229007801.019
- Stock No: TAREA2025039.
- ISBN: 9798229007801.
- ISSN: 3005-4575.

### Core findings: nature and severity of corruption; governance context
- The Governance Diagnostic (GD) Report discusses the nature and severity of corruption in Haiti.
- Corruption is analyzed in relation to Haiti’s fragility.
- Endemic violence is identified as a factor that has undermined the legitimacy of state institutions.
- The GD highlights governance weaknesses and corruption vulnerabilities in:
  - fiscal governance; and
  - financial sector oversight.
- The report emphasizes the impact of corruption on:
  - anti-corruption frameworks;
  - anti-money laundering frameworks; and
  - the rule of law, especially judicial integrity.

### Analytical approach
- Informed by political economy analysis.
- Focuses on how governance weaknesses and corruption vulnerabilities interact with institutional fragility and violence.

### Policy recommendations and reform measures
- The GD Report proposes a set of time-bound reform measures aimed at:
  - strengthening economic governance;
  - strengthening the rule of law; and
  - reducing corruption vulnerabilities.
- Recommendations target improvements across:
  - anti-corruption frameworks;
  - anti-money laundering frameworks; and
  - fiscal governance and financial sector oversight mechanisms.

### Subject areas and keywords
- Subject: Corruption, Crime, Customs administration core functions, Expenditure, Revenue administration, Tax administration core functions.
- Keywords: anti-corruption., authorities of Haiti, Caribbean, corruption, Customs administration core functions, FCS strategy, Global, governance, Governance Diagnostic, Governance Diagnostic report, governance weakness, Haiti, IMF, legal department, Tax administration core functions.

*International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept., International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept., and International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department "Haiti: Technical Assistance Report-Governance Diagnostic Report", Technical Assistance Reports 2025, 039 (2025), DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229007801.019.*

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