According to the World Bank (WB), 80% of businesses in Haiti do not have access to credit. Economic growth being based on the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and in view of this, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a branch of the World Bank and the Bank of the Republic of Haiti (BRH), want in consultation with the private sector, creating a market for leasing, which according to them is a tool that can enable Haitian SMEs to develop their economic activities more quickly.

Let us recall that leasing is the simplest way for an entrepreneur immediately dispose of equipment and to pay it in the form of a rent with a possibility of purchase if desired at the end of the lease or to renew this equipment by a new one, with a new lease.