The United Nations Development Program 2005 Human Development Report says that education in the Dominican Republic is inefficient in spite of increased spending that has gone mostly into salaries, and proves that “greater spending does not provide better results in the system.” According to the UNDP, it takes 28 years of spending to produce a single high school graduate, and “this is too inefficient to produce positive results just by increasing expenditures.” The program says that it is worrisome that so little attention is given to secondary education. The report says that not only is there a relative insufficiency in the amount spent (on secondary education), but there is also a marked inefficiency in how it is spent. The World Bank established that the educational sector in the Dominican Republic suffers systemic deficiencies. This implies that greater expenditures would not necessarily lead to better results. The WB says that one indicator shows that 50% of those that enter first grade only manage to reach the fourth grade, 22% complete the elementary 8 year cycle and only 10% finish high school. As a result, the country has to spend a lot of money to produce an educated citizen or a qualified worker. The report further blasts the amount spent on education in the D.R. “Compared to 137 countries, the Dominican Republic registers expenditures on education as a percentage of the GDP that is half of what is expected (4.6% is expected) according to world standards. In Latin America only Ecuador and Guatemala spend less on education than the Dominican Republic.