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Haiti Expenditures
The misallocation of public revenues for private use
and the
low government allocations for economic and social
development
have contributed directly to Haiti's extreme poverty.
After 1986,
national budgets included a significantly larger portion
for
development efforts, but they continued to allocate the
largest
share--17 percent in FY 1987-88--to the armed forces and
internal
security forces
(see Military Spending and Foreign Assistance
, ch. 10). About 57 percent of FY 1988 expenditures were for
wages
and salaries; 26 percent, for goods and services; 10
percent, for
interest payments; 4 percent, for extrabudgetary spending;
and 3
percent, for transfers and subsidies. Compared with
previous
budgets in the 1980s, this budget included increased
spending on
wages and interest payments and decreased spending on
goods and
services, as well as an allocation for unspecified
expenses. The
FY 1989 budget continued these fiscal trends. The leading
expenditure items in the FY 1989 budget were defense (16.4
percent), debt payments (15.8 percent), education (14.5
percent),
health and social services (13.7 percent), and finance,
public
service, and commerce (12.4 percent). According to some
reports,
however, discrepancies existed between budget allocations
and
actual disbursements.
Data as of December 1989
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