Annexes to the FY 2017-2018 General Budget

This Le Moniteur special issue publishes the annex documents to Haiti's FY2017-2018 General Budget. The cover reads Special No. 27-A, Tuesday September 19, 2017, and the title Documents annexes a la loi de finances, exercice 2017-2018. The annex opens with the statement of reasons for the budget law and then sets out the macroeconomic framework for the fiscal year. Total resources and expenditures are 144.2 billion gourdes. The narrative places the budget after Hurricane Matthew, the 2016-2017 elections and weak revenue, including petroleum-product revenue losses. It reports revised FY2016-2017 growth of 1.1 percent and April 2017 inflation of 14.6 percent, and a 2017-2018 frame of 3.9 percent real GDP growth, average inflation of 13.4 percent, end-period inflation of 11.4 percent and fiscal pressure of 12.7 percent. The expenditure section stresses agriculture, tourism, construction, education, health, infrastructure, social protection, public-finance reform and domestic revenue mobilization.