{"id":132631,"date":"2019-10-31T13:34:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T13:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=132631"},"modified":"2019-10-31T15:45:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:45:51","slug":"oxfam-government-payroll-grows-in-leaps-and-bounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/31\/oxfam-government-payroll-grows-in-leaps-and-bounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxfam: Government payroll grows in leaps and bounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/National-Palace-Presidency-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120779\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"\/><figcaption>Photo: Presidency<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent study, \u201cFiscal Autopsy\u201d 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 \u201cexorbitant.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/vigilantes.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Digital_Resumen-Ejecutivo-Autopsia-Fiscal.pdf\">Autopsia Fiscal<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/oxfam-es-exorbitante-el-ritmo-de-crecimiento-que-experimenta-cada-ano-la-nomina-publica-FE15007882\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 October 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study, \u201cFiscal Autopsy\u201d 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 \u201cexorbitant.\u201d He points out the payroll of the central government has doubled in the past six years of the Medina administration. It has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/31\/oxfam-government-payroll-grows-in-leaps-and-bounds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132667,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132631\/revisions\/132667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}