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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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW DEBT SUSTAINABILITY SERVICE DELIVERY STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS FISCAL POLICY WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION SOCIAL PROTECTION CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT PANDEMIC RESPONSE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/291631623997023891/Dominican-Republic-Public-Expenditure-Review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35856

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spelling	okr-10986-358562021-06-30T05:10:46Z Dominican Republic Public Expenditure Review World Bank PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW DEBT SUSTAINABILITY SERVICE DELIVERY STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS FISCAL POLICY WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION SOCIAL PROTECTION CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT PANDEMIC RESPONSE 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. 2021-06-29T15:22:26Z 2021-06-29T15:22:26Z 2021-01 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/291631623997023891/Dominican-Republic-Public-Expenditure-Review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35856 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Public Expenditure Review Latin America & Caribbean Dominican Republic
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topic	PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW DEBT SUSTAINABILITY SERVICE DELIVERY STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS FISCAL POLICY WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION SOCIAL PROTECTION CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT PANDEMIC RESPONSE
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description	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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title	Dominican Republic Public Expenditure Review
title_short	Dominican Republic Public Expenditure Review
title_full	Dominican Republic Public Expenditure Review
title_fullStr	Dominican Republic Public Expenditure Review
title_full_unstemmed	Dominican Republic Public Expenditure Review
title_sort	dominican republic public expenditure review
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
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Dominican Republic Public Expenditure Review

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