The improvement in access and efficiency of education and health care has been one of the government’s main priorities since 1990. Through these policies, the current administration aims at reducing poverty and income inequality, but also seeks to improve human capital and as such increase welfare that should provide broader foundations for growth. To improve schooling, the government started to introduce full-day public education since 1997 (to be completed by 2006). In health care, a new universal health insurance should become operational in 2004...