Reduced debt and fiscal adjustments are recipes against poverty in Honduras – economist

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.

"The problem is on whom this fiscal adjustment is going to fall. . .