Haiti PRSP Joint Staff Advisory Note
- DSNCRP presents a clear vision for growth, poverty reduction, and improved living standards.
- Authorities have made progress in stabilizing the security situation and improving governance.
- DSNCRP baseline macroeconomic scenario is broadly consistent with targets and structural measures.
- A key challenge is to increase domestic revenue mobilization to support public spending.
- Success of DSNCRP implementation depends on expanding the capacity to execute high-quality public sector spending.
The Joint Staff Advisory Note (JSAN) reviews Haiti's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), focusing on its strategic pillars: enhancing human development, improving security and justice, and promoting growth vectors like agriculture, tourism, and infrastructure. The JSAN highlights the importance of increasing domestic revenue mobilization, improving public sector spending capacity, and prioritizing the PRSP within existing capacity constraints. It also emphasizes the need for a stable macroeconomic framework, good governance, and private sector development to achieve sustainable poverty reduction and growth.
How to cite
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 2008, Haiti PRSP Joint Staff Advisory Note, https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2008/cr08114.pdf