• Definitively, the structuring of the General Budget of the Nation putting people in the first place in the scale of priorities will allow generating a realistic margin of maneuver to finance an important part of the Objectives of the Millennium. It is clear though, as mentioned at the beginning of the Bulletin, that appropriate budget redeployment is a necessary but insufficient condition to battle poverty efficiently and improve the living quality of the population. The State still has a lot to do in the other fields of the economic and social policies.

• One of the pre-requirements to orient resources with greater efficiency and equity toward the proposed objectives is the transparency of the budget information in all of its stages: from the design and structuring in the different levels up to the consolidation in the preliminary project that was submitted by the Executive Power to the Congress. Later, it is crucial that society accompanies the study in detail by the Bicameral Commission, and after the approval, that it also has transparent access to the budget execution carried out by the executing institutions through periodic information about the use of the resources.

Also, from the beginning the rules have to be clear with regard to priorities for fiscal adjustments that may be decided during the fiscal year, in order to especially avoid that resources that are destined to more vulnerable groups be sacrificed. In all of these aspects, the Project of Social Expenditure in the Budget intends to contribute.
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• The real application of the Zero Base Budget cannot be postponed. Its application would not only allow to budget in accordance to objectives, and evaluate the degree of closeness to the goals, but it would also generate greater responsibility from the authorities by making the commitments explicit before the society they represent.

• Nations grow and develop when their inhabitants improve their capabilities and have access to greater and better opportunities. Our proposal is: TO INVEST ON PEOPLE.