2004/08/31
Paraguay invests only U$S 140 per person in social spending
Asunción, Aug. 27. "Paraguay has a large outstanding debt to itself: its extremely high spending on defence is scandalous in comparison with its low social spending, in a situation of growing poverty and inequality,” said Patricia Garcé, executive secretary of the International Secretariat of Social Watch, speaking at the launching of Social Watch’s Report for 2004, “Fear and Want: Obstacles to human security”.