CFI Annual Report 2022-2023
Summary: The Investment Facilitation Centre's annual report for 2022-2023, presenting CFI as a catalyst for investment: the year's activity, the sectors pursued and the results claimed. Read with the 2024-2025 report it gives two points on how investment promotion has fared through the security crisis.
Key Findings
- The report says Haiti's GDP fell by 1.9 percent to 592.7 billion gourdes in constant value.
- The primary sector, employing 45 percent of the Haitian population, contracted by 5.6 percent in 2023.
- The secondary sector and construction were weak, with construction down 6.9 percent and textile and apparel down 6.9 percent.
- Exports fell by 9.6 percent to 40.5 billion gourdes, and the textile subcontracting sector lost 11,262 jobs.
- Net FDI inflows fell from 51.2 million dollars in 2021 to 23.7 million dollars in 2023, a 53.7 percent decline.
- CFI project requests totaled 355 million US dollars and 5,284 announced jobs.
- The report highlights textile and apparel as having more than 60,000 cumulative net direct jobs and about 75 percent of Caribbean foreign investment in the sector.
Full Description
The CFI annual report for 2022-2023 presents the agency as a catalyst for investment during an economic downturn. It reviews Haiti's macroeconomic setting, sector performance, FDI trends, diaspora relevance, investment facilitation and promotion activities, project requests, incentive admissions and priority sectors. The report says project requests received by CFI represented 355 million US dollars and 5,284 announced jobs, while the economy faced lower GDP, falling exports, shrinking textile activity and a sharp fall in net FDI inflows.
How to cite
Investment Facilitation Center (CFI), CFI Annual Report 2022-2023, https://cfi.ht/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Rapport-annuel-2022-2023-1.pdf