DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Economists agree on one point. Public debt should be allocated to capital investments. The problem is that government in the Dominican Republic has been growing in leaps and bounds and most of the cash is going to current expenditures, say wages.

The public debt has been in the headlines as the Abinader administration defends taking on debt given the growing size of the economy. Abinader also argues he is paying the debt of past governments.

Opposition sectors say the government is using statistics to distort the reality of the growing public debt.