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Country Report Haiti August 2009

Publication Date August 2009
Publisher EIU
Product Type Report
Pages 22
ISBN Number not applicable
Product Code EIU00417
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Summary

You may have noticed that since the second quarter of this year, some additional content has started to appear in your monthly and quarterly CRs. We are now including a country map, and a range of basic data (selected to be useful for business travellers in particular), in every country report. For most countries, except a few where data is in very short supply, we are also including comparative economic indicators that show each country's position relative to regional peers, in easy-to-read graphical format.

In addition, for 176 countries, the Country Reports will now include an annual analysis of each country's position in the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index, which ranks countries in terms of their level of democracy, based on five key categories. These analyses were published in the second quarter of this year (in the April country reports for countries covered on a monthly basis, and in the second-quarter reports for those covered on a quarterly basis). Furthermore, as a new feature for more than 150 countries, an analysis of each country's ranking in our unique Quality of Life index will be published on an annual basis starting in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Some of this content has been migrated over to the Country Reports from another product, the Country Profile, which has now been discontinued. The difficult decision to close the Country Profile reflected limited client demand for this service as well as our view that much of the content included in this report is now available for free elsewhere. We would appreciate any feedback that you have on the migration of content from the Country Profiles to the Country Reports.

This report covers the following industry codes:
SIC Code: 10;60
NAICS Code: 212;52;11

Content

  • Important changes to Country Reports
  • Summary
  • Basic data
  • Political structure
  • Economic structure: Annual indicators
  • Economic structure: Quarterly indicators
  • Economic structure: Comparative economic indicators
  • Outlook for 2009-10: Domestic politics
  • Outlook for 2009-10: International relations
  • Outlook for 2009-10: Policy trends
  • Outlook for 2009-10: International assumptions
  • Outlook for 2009-10: Economic growth
  • Outlook for 2009-10: Inflation and the exchange rate
  • Outlook for 2009-10: Foreign trade and payments
  • Outlook for 2009-10: Forecast summary
  • The political scene: Bill Clinton visits Haiti as UN special envoy
  • The political scene: Lespwa's election victory strongly contested
  • The political scene: Minimum wage controversy tests Mr Preval's authority
  • The political scene: Nationalist opposition to UN peacekeepers rises
  • Economic policy: Substantial debt relief to free up US$1m per week
  • Economic policy: Garment assembly and energy programmes underway
  • The domestic economy: Food security improves significantly
  • The domestic economy: Annual inflation falls to lowest rate in more than a decade
  • Foreign trade and payments: Current-account deficit narrows, remittances rise
  • Foreign trade and payments: Total export earnings increase 25% in second quarter

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