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Security & Strategic Review - May 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
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EL SALVADOR | Top of security spending league. El Salvador has risen to the top of the security spending league in Central America, according to a World Bank study presented in late May to a seminar in San Salvador on expenditure on security and justice. The study, conducted in late 2011 and early 2012, shows that in 2010 El Salvador spent 15% of its budget on security and justice, compared with a median of 8.2% for Central America as a whole.
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