A recent study, “Fiscal Autopsy” on government spending carried out by the non-governmental organization Oxfam highlights the significant increases of the public payroll every year. Study author Rafael Jovine calls the increases “exorbitant.” He points out the payroll of the central government has doubled in the past six years of the Medina administration. It has gone from RD$89.14 billion in 2012 to RD$189.46 billion at the end of 2018. There has been an increase in government employment on average of 13.7% from 2013-2018.
According to the report, at the end of 2018, there were 61,911 public servants per million inhabitants in the Dominican Republic, which also places it in third place at the regional level. The average for 15 countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region is 44,667 public employees per million inhabitants. Among the five Central American countries, the average is just 43,110 employees per million inhabitants.
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Autopsia Fiscal
Diario Libre
31 October 2019