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Port-au-Prince, August 9, 2025.- Group Growth CEO Kesner Pharel presented the country's fiscal revenue mobilization performance. Speaker on Magik9, he praised this performance, which he considered positive overall, while stressing that the real challenge remains the efficient management of the resources collected.
During his visit to Panel Magik on Friday 8 August, he said that the amending budget 2024-2025, nicknamed « war budget », does not foresee an overall increase, but includes targeted reallocations, mainly in favour of the security sector.
Thus, the Ministry of Justice and Public Security receives an additional 2 billion gourdes for the PNH. For the first time, the Ministry of Defence has been allocated 8.3 billion gourdes.
Mr. Pharel praised the state's performance in mobilizing revenue, with over 65% of current revenues collected in the first nine months of the fiscal year, despite the difficult security environment.
However, it drew up a mixed picture of budget implementation. Current expenditure has an execution rate of 62.5%, dominated by wages with 68% of execution, exceeding 100 billion gourdes. Quotas and subsidies are paid at 58 per cent, while the energy sector is allocated at 54 per cent.
On the other hand, public investment stagnates, with only 20 per cent executed from public treasury funds and 28 per cent on grants and loans. For Pharel, investment remains the weak link in the budget.
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