Dominican Republic Public Expenditure Review
This public expenditure review (PER) for the Dominican Republic (DR) is designed to inform the government’s fiscal expenditure policies and advance its economic and social development priorities. The PER was requested by the government in December...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/291631623997023891/Dominican-Republic-Public-Expenditure-Review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35856 |
| Summary: | This public expenditure review (PER) for
the Dominican Republic (DR) is designed to inform the
government’s fiscal expenditure policies and advance its
economic and social development priorities. The PER was
requested by the government in December 2019, but its scope
has been extensively revised to reflect the rapid evolution
of the Coronavirus disease SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) crisis.
This PER finds that institutional fragmentation poses a
critical challenge to economic policymaking in the DR.
Inadequate coordination between public agencies undermines
the effectiveness and efficiency of service delivery and
reinforces the monopolistic structure of key economic
sectors. These findings are consistent with the analysis
presented in the previous PER, completed in 2019, which
emphasized the importance of efficiency gains in a context
of constrained revenue mobilization and limited borrowing
space. Institutional fragmentation aggravates the three most
pressing economic policy issues facing the DR: (i) an
unsustainable debt trajectory, (ii) slow rates of job
creation in the formal sector, and (iii) gaps in both the
social protection system and the delivery of basic services. |
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