ACCION Poverty Outreach Findings: SOGESOL, Haiti (InSight No. 08)

Publication Date: Oct 2003
Published by: ACCION International
Document Type: Paper

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Has SOGESOL reached out to the poor?

This paper is the second in a series of poverty assessments performed by ACCION as part of its Poverty Outreach project. It can be downloaded directly from: www.accion.org/insight. It evaluates the poverty levels of SOGESOL clients relative to the Haitian national and urban populations as well as international poverty lines.

• SOGESOL clients have a similar poverty profile to the Port-au-Prince population;
• Haitian population has a higher percentage of people below both the national and Portau-Prince poverty lines than the Port-au-Prince and SOGESOL populations;
• Education level varies among poverty categories for both SOGESOL clients and the Haitian population;
• SOGESOL clients are better educated than the broader Haitian population;
• SOGESOL clients have neither extremely low nor very high expenditure levels.

• Correlation between income and expenditure per capita is 0.60;
• Among SOGESOL clients, loan size is only weakly associated with income and expenditure;
• Correlation between loan size and disposable income is stronger at 0.52;
• Correlation between loan size and total assets is significant at 0.67.