A regional policymaking institution, the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies (Icefi), last year warned that, with huge development challenges such as poverty, income inequality and high violence and crime rates, it will be extremely difficult for
Central American countries to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 without addressing its chronic fiscal problems and increasing public spending. In the first of our focus pieces in this April edition of
Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America, we consider the mixed efforts on the part of various Central American governments to implement fiscal reform.
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