Haiti: Selected Issues

February 11, 2002

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Haiti: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed November 25, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper on Haiti examines the observed reduction in outstanding real bank credit to the private sector. It examines the evolution of credit and real GDP growth and uses demand and supply indicators to characterize the reduction in credit allocation to the private sector. The paper also provides an overview of the taxation system for the major petroleum products under the present fixed pricing policy and a hypothetical implementation of the 1995 law introducing a flexible pricing mechanism.

Subject: Balance of payments, Bank credit, Current account, Current account deficits, Money, Oil prices, Prices, Remittances

Keywords: Bank credit, C. current account sustainability, Caribbean, Central bank, CIF price, CR, Current account, Current account deficit, Current account deficits, Current account inflow, Demand and supply, Gourde terms, ISCR, Oil prices, Premium gasoline, Premium gasoline price, Private sector bank credit growth, Real GDP, Real interest rate, Remittances, Sensitivity analysis, Sustainability assessment, Volume terms

Publication Details

Pages:

76
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2002/018
Stock No:

1HTIEA0022002
ISBN:

9781451817584
ISSN:

1934-7685

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