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Article: REGION'S DEFICIENT SOCIAL SPENDING RETARDS DEVELOPMENT, SAYS U.N. DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
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- NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
- Article date:
- July 31, 2003
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Central American governments continue to invest less than the average for all of Latin America in social spending, the UN Development Program (UNDP) said in its Second Report on Human Development in Central America and Panama.
For 1990-1999, per capita social spending in the region was US$187, "a level that continues to be very low, within the Latin American context, and which represents just 10.7% of total regional GDP, an equally low figure." The region reached this level only by increasing social spending during the decade of the 1990s.
El Salvador ranked fourth lowest in social spending at US$82 per capita. In comparison, Panama spent US$642 and ...
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