Santo Domingo.- Dominican Industries Association (AIRD) president Ligia Bonetti on Monday said to materialize the allocation of 4% of the GDP for education, president elect Danilo Medina should adjust government finances and not apply a tax patch.
She said the new authorities aren’t moving at the pace business expected during the transition period, to reach three agreements within the National Development Strategy, such as taxes, electricity and education.
"To reach 4% for education the reins of government finances will have to be much more efficient, if the funds aren’t provided, and as a sector we would be willing to talk with the new authorities, but not under the concept of a tax patch," Bonetti said on Channel 11.
She said business leaders have had several talks with Medina just to understand where he sees the process, and from the National Business Council (CONEP) have agreed on the basic parameters of what they consider should be a comprehensive tax reform. "We understand that the new authorities must instil a vision of austerity, a view not to spend more and refocus the quality and efficiency of spending."
Bonetti wants the new authorities to consider a zero budget, not how much was spent in 2011 or in 2012, but deal with a budget instead, ministry by ministry, making cuts, trims, how much is needed and how it can be done.
Written by: josean, 6 Aug 2012 11:54 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
"Medina must cut spending, not tax"
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Written by: juanb, 6 Aug 2012 12:58 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Cut spending?
Yeah, right.
Written by: josean, 6 Aug 2012 1:03 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
That stubborn EDUCATIONAL DEFICIT made worse by Lie-onel Fernandez during the last 8 years, just wouldn’t go Away!
“Atalli insists on the need to improve the education of the country”
“SANTO DOMINGO (Dominican Republic) - EDUCATION, the neuralgic issue for Dominican society, requires a reformulation of programs, as a prelude to the reform of the educational system that emphasizes improving the mastery of Spanish, mathematics and sciences by students.”
Nothing on METRO ridding skills?
"The recommendation is contained in the follow-up report of the Attalli report, carried out in 2010, and consisting of a set of proposals to overcome the DEFICITS IN KEY AREAS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY."
"On this occasion, the team led by the French specialist Jacques Attalli, also advocates teaching Dominican students civic values that contribute to the construction of the society of the future."
Again no mention of mastery of the METRO!
continued:
Written by: josean, 6 Aug 2012 1:04 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Read the rest at:
“Atalli insiste en necesidad de mejorar la educación del país”
7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=122990
Written by: Atabey, 6 Aug 2012 1:17 PM
From: United States, NYC
Informe de la Comisión Internacional para
el Desarrollo Estratégico de la República Dominicana, 2010-2020
Bajo la dirección de
Jacques Attali
Miembros de la Comisión: Rafael (Pepe) Abreu • Rosa Rita álvarez • Cyrille Arnould •
Carlos Asilis • José Luis Corripio • Mathilde Lemoine • Jeffrey Owens • Mario
Pezzini • Eduardo Jorge Prats • Marc Stubbe • Ian Whitman
Noviembre 2010
Informe de la Comisión Internacional para
el Desarrollo Estratégico de la República Dominicana
República Dominicana
.economia.gob.do/UploadPDF/Informe_Attali.pdf
Provide the study, next time.
"On this basis, the restoration of the social contract may be started sowing the seeds of Dominican society of tomorrow. Long-term measures should
begin immediately in order that its effects are visible on the horizon
National Strategy. Concern at first glance the public health services, infrastructure and electricity (Initiative 2),"
I guess the METRO forms part of the infrastructure initiativ
Written by: josean, 6 Aug 2012 1:22 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Then what would you have to do?
Other than hide from Hippo's Cab Drivers in NYC!
PS
I did two years ago and you ignored it, because you were METRO-Obsessed at the time before you found it politically expedient to Jump on the YELLOW Wagon of EDUCATION!
Written by: zooma, 6 Aug 2012 1:55 PM
From: United States
Number one item, get rid of what does not produce. "botellas"
Written by: RonEvane 
, 6 Aug 2012 2:08 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Shrink government "worker's" (leaches), salaries and use these billions to increment education expenditure.
DT: No comma necessary after "not tax".
From: Dominican Republic, calle A.Portes
Actually the money spent on education under LF increased every year ,,,it is only when expressed as a percentage of GDP that the figure looks bad.
But as Dreadlocks correctly points out , it is how the extra money is spent that is the most important thing and I think all these new little schools are just stupid .and show no planning ..the teacher is sick for a few days so none learns ...far better to have model high schools in selected locations and school buses taking students there ,,
Written by: Atabey, 6 Aug 2012 7:39 PM
From: United States, NYC
"METRO-Obsessed"
Now no one would think you had such a problem, eh? LOL
Written by: Atabey, 6 Aug 2012 7:54 PM
From: United States, NYC
Rich,
First, having small schools in these distant communities may answer a short term need. The large schools you advocate will require good transportation from rural to urban areas.
Second, ANY SPENDING IS A PRIORI understood to be well spent in order to maximize the investment. Historically in DR, educational spending has NOT been prioritized and simply wasted. On the contrary, we have had a tradition of massive UNDERINVESTMENT with waste!
In the Study, "Informe de la Comisión Internacional para el Desarrollo Estratégico de la República Dominicana, 2010-2020" you will find the very informative graph that highlights expenditures by a select number of countries. Jamaica, Costa Rica and the DR are represented. DR comes out, as I've often pointed out on DT, with an average of 2% of GDP, while Costa Rica and Jamaica have invested in their citizens 5%-8% of GDP over an extended period of time.
Written by: Atabey, 6 Aug 2012 7:56 PM
From: United States, NYC
DR will never advance to modern standards of education while holding spending at such dismal levels. Not even in advanced nations-where basic education has long been accomplished- are the levels of spending (% of GDP) so low!
Of course, Rome wasn't created in a day, and increases will need to happen gradually but firmly. Medina has spoken about financing One (1) FULL SCHOOL DAY per year of his administration. So even if he should be successful, there would still be 8 FULL years left to finance! Thus three administrations would need to keep the same promise for the nation to achieve a National system of 1-12 education. And then keep this promise going as a constant government investment.
That means that something on the same order of government investments towards education witnessed in Costa Rica and Jamaica, or 5-8% of GDP, will most likely be necessary to achieve the elusive goal of basic academic achievement in DR.
We are a ways off from such levels.
Written by: josean, 6 Aug 2012 9:45 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
So much verbiage and so little results; a very typical illness of the PURPLE KNOW IT ALLS and their imitators, like Atabey.
Always, citing a study or initiating one or forming a commission to study the study to recommend a study!................................ Cows never got fat by constantly weighing them!
Of course Rome wasn’t built in one day and at this rate it will NEVER BE BUILT; the time to act is NOW!!!!!!
The fundamental problem is that the Dominican Elites, for whom Lie-onel and the PLD have chosen to carry their water, have never had an interest in world class EDUCATION for the masses because they would lose their control and disproportionate privileges. So they super exploit the public in numerous ways, pay themselves exorbitant salaries when they are on the public dole, so they can send their children too elite private schools, while they pretend to provide public education to the masses with the crumbs that are left after their thievery and corruption.
con
Written by: josean, 6 Aug 2012 9:47 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Everybody knows what needs to be done, this not Rocket Science or the first time in the world that it has been done!
What is need is the Will, the Hutzpah or the Proverbial Cojones to do it. I doubt Danilo has any of the three, but for the sake of our Children I wouldn’t mind being proved wrong. My doubts originate from that nonsense of a Full Day of School per year, which is just not going to Cut it. It sounds like more PLD Procrastination!
Dominican children are way far behind, measured in years to their peers with similar economic resources and LIGHT YEARS behind students in the first world.
This is a NATIONAL EMERGENCY and must be treated as such; if not we will spend another 500 years in neocolonial status.
The Time is YESTERDAY, to address the EDUCATIONAL CRISIS, TOMORROW is TOO LATE!
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"Medina must cut spending, not tax"
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cut spending?
Yeah, right.
That stubborn EDUCATIONAL DEFICIT made worse by Lie-onel Fernandez during the last 8 years, just wouldn’t go Away!
“Atalli insists on the need to improve the education of the country”
“SANTO DOMINGO (Dominican Republic) - EDUCATION, the neuralgic issue for Dominican society, requires a reformulation of programs, as a prelude to the reform of the educational system that emphasizes improving the mastery of Spanish, mathematics and sciences by students.”
Nothing on METRO ridding skills?
"The recommendation is contained in the follow-up report of the Attalli report, carried out in 2010, and consisting of a set of proposals to overcome the DEFICITS IN KEY AREAS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY."
"On this occasion, the team led by the French specialist Jacques Attalli, also advocates teaching Dominican students civic values that contribute to the construction of the society of the future."
Again no mention of mastery of the METRO!
continued:
Read the rest at:
“Atalli insiste en necesidad de mejorar la educación del país”
7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=122990
Informe de la Comisión Internacional para
el Desarrollo Estratégico de la República Dominicana, 2010-2020
Bajo la dirección de
Jacques Attali
Miembros de la Comisión: Rafael (Pepe) Abreu • Rosa Rita álvarez • Cyrille Arnould •
Carlos Asilis • José Luis Corripio • Mathilde Lemoine • Jeffrey Owens • Mario
Pezzini • Eduardo Jorge Prats • Marc Stubbe • Ian Whitman
Noviembre 2010
Informe de la Comisión Internacional para
el Desarrollo Estratégico de la República Dominicana
República Dominicana
.economia.gob.do/UploadPDF/Informe_Attali.pdf
Provide the study, next time.
"On this basis, the restoration of the social contract may be started sowing the seeds of Dominican society of tomorrow. Long-term measures should
begin immediately in order that its effects are visible on the horizon
National Strategy. Concern at first glance the public health services, infrastructure and electricity (Initiative 2),"
I guess the METRO forms part of the infrastructure initiativ
Then what would you have to do?
Other than hide from Hippo's Cab Drivers in NYC!
PS
I did two years ago and you ignored it, because you were METRO-Obsessed at the time before you found it politically expedient to Jump on the YELLOW Wagon of EDUCATION!
Number one item, get rid of what does not produce. "botellas"
Shrink government "worker's" (leaches), salaries and use these billions to increment education expenditure.
DT: No comma necessary after "not tax".
But as Dreadlocks correctly points out , it is how the extra money is spent that is the most important thing and I think all these new little schools are just stupid .and show no planning ..the teacher is sick for a few days so none learns ...far better to have model high schools in selected locations and school buses taking students there ,,
"METRO-Obsessed"
Now no one would think you had such a problem, eh? LOL
First, having small schools in these distant communities may answer a short term need. The large schools you advocate will require good transportation from rural to urban areas.
Second, ANY SPENDING IS A PRIORI understood to be well spent in order to maximize the investment. Historically in DR, educational spending has NOT been prioritized and simply wasted. On the contrary, we have had a tradition of massive UNDERINVESTMENT with waste!
In the Study, "Informe de la Comisión Internacional para el Desarrollo Estratégico de la República Dominicana, 2010-2020" you will find the very informative graph that highlights expenditures by a select number of countries. Jamaica, Costa Rica and the DR are represented. DR comes out, as I've often pointed out on DT, with an average of 2% of GDP, while Costa Rica and Jamaica have invested in their citizens 5%-8% of GDP over an extended period of time.
Of course, Rome wasn't created in a day, and increases will need to happen gradually but firmly. Medina has spoken about financing One (1) FULL SCHOOL DAY per year of his administration. So even if he should be successful, there would still be 8 FULL years left to finance! Thus three administrations would need to keep the same promise for the nation to achieve a National system of 1-12 education. And then keep this promise going as a constant government investment.
That means that something on the same order of government investments towards education witnessed in Costa Rica and Jamaica, or 5-8% of GDP, will most likely be necessary to achieve the elusive goal of basic academic achievement in DR.
We are a ways off from such levels.
So much verbiage and so little results; a very typical illness of the PURPLE KNOW IT ALLS and their imitators, like Atabey.
Always, citing a study or initiating one or forming a commission to study the study to recommend a study!................................ Cows never got fat by constantly weighing them!
Of course Rome wasn’t built in one day and at this rate it will NEVER BE BUILT; the time to act is NOW!!!!!!
The fundamental problem is that the Dominican Elites, for whom Lie-onel and the PLD have chosen to carry their water, have never had an interest in world class EDUCATION for the masses because they would lose their control and disproportionate privileges. So they super exploit the public in numerous ways, pay themselves exorbitant salaries when they are on the public dole, so they can send their children too elite private schools, while they pretend to provide public education to the masses with the crumbs that are left after their thievery and corruption.
con
Everybody knows what needs to be done, this not Rocket Science or the first time in the world that it has been done!
What is need is the Will, the Hutzpah or the Proverbial Cojones to do it. I doubt Danilo has any of the three, but for the sake of our Children I wouldn’t mind being proved wrong. My doubts originate from that nonsense of a Full Day of School per year, which is just not going to Cut it. It sounds like more PLD Procrastination!
Dominican children are way far behind, measured in years to their peers with similar economic resources and LIGHT YEARS behind students in the first world.
This is a NATIONAL EMERGENCY and must be treated as such; if not we will spend another 500 years in neocolonial status.
The Time is YESTERDAY, to address the EDUCATIONAL CRISIS, TOMORROW is TOO LATE!