Gabriela Calderón De Burgos: the Problem Is Centralism · Global Voices

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The government proposes to impose greater discipline on local government spending (GAD). The current regime that regulates this decentralized spending does aim to regulate GAD spending, but it has no consequences if local governments fail to comply with these rules. The government project points to local populism as the major problem of the national budget and proposes as a solution to require GADs to be more efficient in spending: to concentrat…