Central America: Fiscal Outlook - April 2017

In 2016, the ratio between total expenditure of central governments of the countries of the region and GDP remained almost unchanged from the previous year, going from 18.3% to 18.6%.

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

From the report "Macroeconomic Profiles: 8th edition", from the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies (Icefi): 

The Central American Institute for Fiscal Studies (Icefi) presented its most recent edition of the Macro-Fiscal Profiles of Central America, which contains an analysis of the fiscal situation of Central America and each of the countries of the region, at the end of fiscal year 2016, as well as the main lines contained in the budgets approved for 2017. The publication includes in this opportunity a revision to the main indicators related to the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Objectives 2030 -ODS 2030- and raises the urgent need to make progress in a new fiscal agenda that allows the effective attention of these commitments in the short term.
 
The fiscal information of the Central American countries indicates that Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are imbued in an effort to guarantee their fiscal sustainability, in the sense of avoiding an increase in the fiscal deficit and the balance of central government debt. In contrast, Nicaragua and Panama, at least with the available figures, seem to show that they still have more room for deepening the work of the public sector in their economies and in some dimensions, they could obtain more encouraging results in the fulfillment of the ODS2030.

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