A profile of poverty in Haiti

The poverty profile assesses the magnitude of poverty, identifies the extent of poverty in various segments of the population, and describes the characteristics of the poor, using data from the Haiti Living Condition Survey. The profile was commissioned by the UNDP in 2003, and as part of the project Fafo organised two two-week courses on poverty analysis in Port-au-Prince, for participants from the IHSI, the Central Bank, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation.

The profile uses the poverty lines of $1/$2 per day, and finds that three quarters of the population (76 per cent) live on less than $2 per day and over half (56 per cent) - four and a half million persons - live on less than $1 per day. This is a higher poverty incidence than any other country in the region, and comparable to the poorest African countries.

Researchers

Willy Egset

Pål Sletten

Publications

Poverty in Haiti, Pål Sletten and Willy Egset (2004)