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Il s'agit de PromoCapital, une banque d'nvestissement, fondée en 2004, peu de temps après l'éviction d'Aristide. Il est dit qu'une soixantaine de riches Haïtiens et Haïtiens Américains ont mis sur pied la première banque d'investissement du pays avec l'intention de donner la priorité à des projets dont les pauvres pourraient être les bénéficiaires. A la fin de l'article, il y a une réflexion d'un certain Monsieur Maguire, professeur à Trinity Collège et expert sur les questions haïtiennesi qui dit ceci: " L'élite haïtienne n'est pas connue pour déployer une éthique ailleurs que dans ce qui touche ses propres intérêts; elle veut défendre à tous prix ses privilèges plutôt que d'utiliser les investisement pour le bien-être de la société" Sans commentaires...
PromoCapital existe. Est-ce qu'ils ont, depuis 2004, initié des projets qui pourraient, comme ils le disent, "bénéficier aux masses pauvres" ?
Les noms des partenaires de PromoCapital affichés à la fin de l'article, sont à quelques exceptions près, les mêmes qui se retrouvent dans toutes les affaires haïtiennes. Tourne manège...
By James Cox, USA TODAY
Seventy wealthy Haitians and Haitian-Americans are launching the island nation's first investment bank, setting their sights on modest returns to give priority to projects that will benefit Haiti's poor masses.
PromoCapital hopes to spend up to $150 million in Haiti over the next two years, says Henri Deschamps, a prominent Port-au-Prince printing and media executive who will chair the bank.
"People are quite fed up with Haiti being in constant upheaval, as are we. You have to go and try to make it better," he says. "Globally, the place looks like it's a shambles, but in fact individual businesses are slugging it out and succeeding."
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest in the world. It is chronically dependent on aid from the United States, World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, along with an estimated $800 million sent home annually by Haitian exiles working abroad.
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled the country Feb. 29 as rebels closed in on the capital and lawlessness engulfed the city. A 3,600-member multinational force, including 2,000 U.S. Marines, is in Haiti to keep order. An interim government says it will hold elections next year.
Deschamps says PromoCapital will be a pipeline for investment by some of the millions of Haitians abroad and fill a void left by undercapitalized commercial banks and weary aid agencies. He says PromoCapital will:
• Finance modernization projects. PromoCapital is looking at investments in telecom and housing for the working poor.
• Find partners for family-owned businesses in need of financing to expand.
• Offer credit guarantees to farmers and small and midsize businesses that suffered damage and losses from recent looting and vandalism. The guarantees will let entrepreneurs borrow on favorable terms from the country's commercial banks.
Dumarsais Siméus, a PromoCapital founder who owns a large food-processing business in Texas, says partners are looking for annual returns in the mid- or high teens, compared with the 20% to 40% returns typically sought by investors in private equity funds.
Traditionally, much of Haiti's business elite has been viewed with distrust by ordinary Haitians and government leaders alike.
"The Haitian business class has not been highly regarded for its ethos of enlightened self-interest," says Robert Maguire, a Haiti expert at Trinity College in Washington, D.C. "It wanted very much to protect its privileged position (rather than) use its investments for the well-being of society."
Partners
PromoCapital existe. Est-ce qu'ils ont, depuis 2004, initié des projets qui pourraient, comme ils le disent, "bénéficier aux masses pauvres" ?
Les noms des partenaires de PromoCapital affichés à la fin de l'article, sont à quelques exceptions près, les mêmes qui se retrouvent dans toutes les affaires haïtiennes. Tourne manège...
By James Cox, USA TODAY
Seventy wealthy Haitians and Haitian-Americans are launching the island nation's first investment bank, setting their sights on modest returns to give priority to projects that will benefit Haiti's poor masses.
PromoCapital hopes to spend up to $150 million in Haiti over the next two years, says Henri Deschamps, a prominent Port-au-Prince printing and media executive who will chair the bank.
"People are quite fed up with Haiti being in constant upheaval, as are we. You have to go and try to make it better," he says. "Globally, the place looks like it's a shambles, but in fact individual businesses are slugging it out and succeeding."
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest in the world. It is chronically dependent on aid from the United States, World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, along with an estimated $800 million sent home annually by Haitian exiles working abroad.
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled the country Feb. 29 as rebels closed in on the capital and lawlessness engulfed the city. A 3,600-member multinational force, including 2,000 U.S. Marines, is in Haiti to keep order. An interim government says it will hold elections next year.
Deschamps says PromoCapital will be a pipeline for investment by some of the millions of Haitians abroad and fill a void left by undercapitalized commercial banks and weary aid agencies. He says PromoCapital will:
• Finance modernization projects. PromoCapital is looking at investments in telecom and housing for the working poor.
• Find partners for family-owned businesses in need of financing to expand.
• Offer credit guarantees to farmers and small and midsize businesses that suffered damage and losses from recent looting and vandalism. The guarantees will let entrepreneurs borrow on favorable terms from the country's commercial banks.
Dumarsais Siméus, a PromoCapital founder who owns a large food-processing business in Texas, says partners are looking for annual returns in the mid- or high teens, compared with the 20% to 40% returns typically sought by investors in private equity funds.
Traditionally, much of Haiti's business elite has been viewed with distrust by ordinary Haitians and government leaders alike.
"The Haitian business class has not been highly regarded for its ethos of enlightened self-interest," says Robert Maguire, a Haiti expert at Trinity College in Washington, D.C. "It wanted very much to protect its privileged position (rather than) use its investments for the well-being of society."
Partners
Albert Levy, Axan Abellard, Carlet Auguste, Caroline Racine, Daniel Rouzier, Daniel Silva, Daniele Jean-Pierre, Esq., Dimy Doresca, Dumarsais M. Siméus, Elda James, Esq., Elisabeth Delatour, Emile Corneille, Emmanuel Francois, Florence Bellande Robertson, Frantz Bourget, Frederic Madsen, Fred Tony, Fritz Fougy, Gabrielle Alexis, Esq., Gary Jean-Baptiste, Georges J. Casimir, Gerd Pasquet, Gilbert Bigio, Gregory Brandt, Hans Tippenhauer, Harriet Michel, Hendrik Verwaay, Henri Deschamps, Henry Paul, Herve Francois, Jacques Deschamps Fils, Jean-Henry Céant, Jean-Marie Wolff, Jean-Pierre Saint-Victor, Jean-Robert Vertus, Jerry Tardieu, Joelle Coupaud, Jon Robertson, Joseph Baptiste, Josseline Colimon-Féthière, Julio Bateau, Kimberly Simeus, Laurence Bigio, Laurent Pierre-Philippe, Magdalah Silva, Marc-Antoine Acra, May Parisien, Michael Gay Sr., Monique Bigio, Nadege Tippenhauer, Olivier Acra, Patrice Backer, Patrick Delatour, Patrick Moynihan, Patrick Tardieu, Reginald Boulos, Reginald Villard, Régynald Heurtelou, Ronald Georges, Rudolph Berrouët, Rudolph Moise, Reuven Bigio, Sebastien Acra, Serge Parisien, Serge Pinard, Steeve Handal, The Simeus Foundation, Vanessa Dickey, Yael Bigio-Garoute, Yves Joseph. Biographies available on request.
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Sources USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2004-04-29-haiti_x.htm
Site de Promocapital : http://www.promocapital.us/weare.htm
Site de Promocapital : http://www.promocapital.us/weare.htm
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