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09-23-2010, 11:50 AM
The World Bank representative in the DR, Roby Senderowitsch has reiterated that the country needs to improve the quality of its public spending and make public investments of greater value to citizens. He was commenting on the occasion of the review of country's fulfillment of the UN Millennium Development Goals. The DR has fallen behind in its quest to meet this commitment.
Senderowitsch said the country needed to reduce levels of corruption and increase transparency, and pointed out: "Today the country has the same levels of poverty that it had 20 years ago, but it has grown more than any other country in Latin America. In the World Bank we consider it a true tragedy that while given the economic growth there has been in the country, this is not reflected in the pockets of Dominicans." He said poverty here is not being reduced, there is inequity, and the gap between rich and poor is not being decreased.
Senderowitsch said that all Dominicans are paying for electricity, which is calculated in the 16% ITBIS tax. "When people say they do not pay for electricity, it is only that they think they are not paying for it," as reported in Hoy. "But they pay for the service when they buy beer, milk or rice. A third of the tax that they pay everyday covers the electricity that they steal," he said, as reported in Hoy. Senderowitsch was interviewed while taking part in a pilot program for temporary jobs in Santiago with the Ministry of Labor.
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Senderowitsch said the country needed to reduce levels of corruption and increase transparency, and pointed out: "Today the country has the same levels of poverty that it had 20 years ago, but it has grown more than any other country in Latin America. In the World Bank we consider it a true tragedy that while given the economic growth there has been in the country, this is not reflected in the pockets of Dominicans." He said poverty here is not being reduced, there is inequity, and the gap between rich and poor is not being decreased.
Senderowitsch said that all Dominicans are paying for electricity, which is calculated in the 16% ITBIS tax. "When people say they do not pay for electricity, it is only that they think they are not paying for it," as reported in Hoy. "But they pay for the service when they buy beer, milk or rice. A third of the tax that they pay everyday covers the electricity that they steal," he said, as reported in Hoy. Senderowitsch was interviewed while taking part in a pilot program for temporary jobs in Santiago with the Ministry of Labor.
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