News Haiti Markets: Jobs, Trade and Credit: The Structural Gaps Keeping Haiti’s Economy from Moving
A new World Bank Group report argues that Haiti retains important economic strengths despite years of weak growth, including a young workforce, proximity to major markets and export potential in agriculture. The report also makes clear that recovery will depend on addressing deeper constraints around job creation, displacement, remittance dependence, market access, governance and the physical reconnection of economic activity across the country.
News Haiti Markets: Thriving black markets in Haiti aid
International efforts to help Haiti recover are still gaining pace as the World Food Programme distributes about 680 tonnes of food each day. But aid agencies believe that 10 per cent of the donations ...
News Haiti Markets: Ten challenges facing Haiti in 2022
The year 2021 was very convulsed and left Haiti with many economic, political and social problems to solve. Some of them are summarized below. In the five months of his tenure, prime minister Ariel ...
News Haiti Markets: Haiti's traditional joumou soup: a tasty reminder of freedom
A mix of meat, vegetables, pasta and the squash for which it is named, Haitians enjoy joumou soup every January 1 to celebrate the new year and their country's independence.
