Roadmap for the Ministry of Economy and Finance (Jude Alix Patrick Salomon)
Summary: A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Jude Alix Patrick Salomon at the Ministry of Economy and Finance. It refers back to the general policy statement he put to the Senate on 14 March 2017 and to the Chamber of Deputies on 20 March 2017, then sets out what the ministry is to undertake over the five-year term.
Key Findings
- Assigns the MEF four standing objectives, sound management of public finances, an improved macroeconomic framework, a strengthened economic promotion function and a more dynamic productive base, then lists the actions expected against each.
- Names specific fiscal-institution reforms rather than fiscal intentions: updating and codifying the tax laws, accelerating the reform of the DGI and the customs administration, and extending the treasury single account to the territorial collectivities.
- Instructs the ministry to have a three-year public investment programming law adopted, setting a predefined percentage of the national budget aside exclusively for strategic projects.
- Orders a high-level technical unit to prepare a project bank across the fields of public policy, the stated purpose being to cut the delay before strategic projects can be put to potential local and international partners.
- Includes a Grand Emprunt National, a large national borrowing operation, to finance strategic projects, alongside strengthening debt management and creating a secondary market in public debt.
- Extends the ministry's remit to the financial soundness of pension funds, retirement schemes, insurance companies and the bodies collecting social contributions, and to simplifying the institutional chain of budget execution across ministries, the CNMP and the CSCCA.
Full Description
A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Jude Alix Patrick Salomon at the Ministry of Economy and Finance. It refers back to the general policy statement he put to the Senate on 14 March 2017 and to the Chamber of Deputies on 20 March 2017, then sets out what the ministry is to undertake over the five-year term.
How to cite
Office of the Prime Minister of Haiti, 2017, Roadmap for the Ministry of Economy and Finance (Jude Alix Patrick Salomon), http://www.sgcm.gouv.ht/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/6-Feuille-de-route-du-Ministre-de-l_Economie-et-des-Finances.pdf