{"id":98681,"date":"2017-05-03T08:34:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=98681"},"modified":"2017-05-03T08:34:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:34:17","slug":"nonfinancial-public-sector-debt-increases-46-8-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/05\/03\/nonfinancial-public-sector-debt-increases-46-8-in-first-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonfinancial Public Sector Debt increases 46.8% in first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-98672\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Growing-debt-Publisher-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/>According to data from the Budget Agency (Digepres), the Nonfinancial Public Sector Debt increased from RD$34.22 billion in the first quarter of 2016 to RD$50.22 billion at the close of the same period in 2017. This is an annual increase of 46.8%. The increase is attributed to the Dominican government taking on more debt than it is servicing.<\/p>\n<p>From January to March of 2017, the Executive Branch issued RD$80.46 billion in debt, while it made payments of RD$30.24 billion during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/endeudamiento-neto-sector-publico-no-financiero-subio-46-8-en-el-primer-trimestre-BH6977641\" target=\"_blank\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3 May 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to data from the Budget Agency (Digepres), the Nonfinancial Public Sector Debt increased from RD$34.22 billion in the first quarter of 2016 to RD$50.22 billion at the close of the same period in 2017. This is an annual increase of 46.8%. The increase is attributed to the Dominican government taking on more debt than &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/05\/03\/nonfinancial-public-sector-debt-increases-46-8-in-first-quarter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98681"}],"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=98681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}