Haiti: Selected Issues

June 17, 2005

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Haiti: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed November 24, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper reviews key trends in Haiti’s fiscal performance over the past decade and discusses various options for strengthening the fiscal system. It suggests that a key challenge will be to generate adequate resources to support development, which requires an increase in outlays on social programs, security, and infrastructure investment to at least the levels observed in other low-income countries. The paper reviews revenue trends and key features of the tax system. It also illustrates that Haiti’s public sector employment is far smaller than in other countries.

Subject: Civil service, Exports, International trade, Labor, Public employment, Revenue administration, Taxes, Value-added tax

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, BRH, BRH balance sheet, BRH bond, BRH credit, BRH loss, Caribbean, Civil service, CR, Expenditure, Exports, Haiti, ISCR, Public employment, Reserve, Value-added tax, Wage, Wage bill, Western Hemisphere

Publication Details

Pages:

103
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2005/205
Stock No:

1HTIEA2005002
ISBN:

9781451817607
ISSN:

1934-7685

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