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Haiti INDUSTRY
Manufacturing
Manufacturing was the most dynamic sector of the
economy in
the 1980s. Growth in this sector had averaged more than 10
percent a year during the 1970s; manufactures replaced
agricultural commodities as the country's leading export
goods
during this decade. In 1988 manufacturing accounted for 17
percent of GDP and for 53 percent of exports; it employed
about 6
percent of the labor force. In addition to the dynamic
assembly
subsector, which experienced 22 percent real annual growth
in the
1970s, included small-scale local manufacturing
enterprises and
large-scale, state-owned organizations.
The manufacturing sector in the late 1980s comprised
500
enterprises, most of which were small or medium in size
and
family-owned. Their major products included processed
foods,
electrical equipment, textiles, and clothing. Small
enterprises,
employing up to 50 workers, represented 57 percent of all
manufacturing firms, but they employed only 10 percent of
the
industrial labor force. Medium enterprises, with 51 to 300
workers, accounted for 35 percent of the sector's firms
and
employed 44 percent of the industrial labor force. Large
enterprises, those with more than 300 employees,
constituted only
8 percent of the companies, but they employed 43 percent
of all
manufacturing workers, mostly in large assembly factories
in the
industrial parks of Port-au-Prince.
Data as of December 1989
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