RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Honduras must generate fiscal space and reduce the public debt that already dragged down the economy from before the pandemic of Covid-19, in order to address social problems such as poverty, Honduran economist Claudio Salgado said on Wednesday in Tegucigalpa.
The new government to be elected in November in Honduras will receive a country “bankrupt”, so it will have to make a “fiscal adjustment” to meet the needs of different sectors, with special attention to the health system and social programs, said Salgado.
Honduran economist Claudio Salgado. (Photo internet reproduction)
“The problem is on whom this fiscal adjustment is going to fall, on the great majority of the population or against those who have gained substantially in the pandemic,” the economist wondered.