The Dominican Republic has seen healthy economic growth in recent years. But it is one of the few Latin American countries where income distribution has become more unequal over the past decade. That is partly because the state does little to help the poor: the tax take, at 12.8% of gdp, is the region's third-lowest. To make matters worse for the new president, Danilo Medina, who took office in August, he discovered that this year's budget deficit would be 8% of gdp, rather than 5% as the previous government claimed.
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