Three-Year Investment Program 2014-2016 and Its Framework - Towards Accelerated and Balanced Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction - Emerging Country by 2030

Issued by the planning ministry MPCE with the finance ministry MEF, the program is the tool for carrying out the Strategic Development Plan of Haiti toward an emerging country by 2030. It reviews human development, poverty, employment and Millennium Development Goal trends, and recalls that the January 12, 2010 earthquake cost about 120 percent of GDP and cut growth by 5.1 percent, followed by 5.6 percent growth in 2010-2011 and 2.8 percent in 2011-2012. It anticipates average annual growth of 5.6 percent over the three years and a two-phase path, with construction, agriculture, tourism and textiles first. Results matrices cover territorial, economic, social and institutional refoundation, and a summary table gives the investment program for 2014 to 2016, followed by tables for each of the four pillars. The program also sets out the monetary and trade policy orientations.