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  • Haiti's Troubled Path to Development

    09:37 | 13/3/18
    Council on Foreign Relations
    The United States is Haiti's largest trade partner. In recent years, natural disasters, disease, political instability, mismanagement of humanitarian relief, and a depreciation of the gourde—Haiti's currency—have strained the economy. Tourism, once a ... more»

  • Global Price Watch: January 2018 (February 02 2018)

    00:48 | 2/2/18
    ReliefWeb
    In Haiti, ample market supply led to a marginal decrease in staple food prices. The exception was local maize for which prices tightened due to lower than expected supply from the Hiver harvest. more»

  • Alone In A Hellhole, Praying To Go Home

    04:00 | 25/1/18
    Bahamas Tribune
    #Deportees were bused to a large yard and given $300 HTG (Haitian gourde), he said. #The amount converts to around US $4.69 - and it was all he had. more»

  • Global Price Watch: October 2017 Prices (November 30, 2017)

    21:48 | 29/12/17
    ReliefWeb
    ... • In West Africa, harvests across the Sahel were well underway in October. Aggregate regional staple food production for the 2017/18 marketing year is expected to be average to above average. more»

  • Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Stabilization Mission in ...

    10:45 | 14/10/17
    ReliefWeb
    On 27 July, President Moïse raised the daily minimum wage for assembly factory workers to 350 Haitian gourdes, slightly higher than the 335 recommended by the Superior Council of Salaries and considerably less than the 800 gourdes demanded by the ... more»

  • Price Watch: July 2017 Prices (August 31, 2017)

    00:56 | 4/9/17
    ReliefWeb
    The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries at risk of food insecurity. more»

  • Haiti workers protest minimum wage as managers threaten exit

    13:30 | 27/6/17
    Reuters
    Workers in textile factories currently earn 300 Haitian gourdes ($4.77). They are demanding a raise to 800 gourdes a day. An annual report seen by Reuters from the High Council of Salaries, which is tasked with recommending changes to the minimum wage, ... more»

  • Haiti garment workers launch another protest over wages

    04:56 | 30/5/17
    Daily Mail
    Workers chant anti-government slogans as they demand a minimum wage increase, from $4.67 per day to $12.47 per day, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, May 29, 2017. Workers are also protesting the firing of roughly 40 union members at a Port-au-Prince ... more»

  • Trump administration grants brief extension of Temporary Protected Status for ...

    17:37 | 29/5/17
    World Socialist Web Site
    Economically, Haitians are suffering from inflation as the Gourde loses value, and there are stories of workers being paid in Gourdes but having to use dollars to buy food. The national government has decreed an increase in the price of gasoline to 224 ... more»

  • Haiti - Economy : Nearly 200 billion Gourdes of debt

    03:48 | 14/3/17
    Haitilibre.com
    Venezuela is Haiti's largest external debt, estimated at $ 1.7 billion (September 2016), or nearly 80 per cent of Haiti's total external debt. A Venezuelan debt whose monthly amount ($ 8 million) is increasingly higher due to the devaluation of the ... more»
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