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<text id=93AT0880>
<title>
Delaware--Economy
</title>
<history>
Compact ALMANAC--United States Directory
Delaware
</history>
<article>
<source>Compact</source>
<hdr>
Economy
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<body>
<p>FW Rank: 13
</p>
<p>1992 Rank: 15
</p>
<p>Population: 680,000
</p>
<p>Moody's bond rating: Aa
</p>
<p>Standard & Poor's bond rating: AA+
</p>
<p>Governor: Thomas R. Carper, Democrat
</p>
<p>Legislature: Republican majority in House; Democratic
majority in Senate
</p>
<p> -- Ranking pluses: Increased emphasis on long-term
planning; well-stocked rainy day fund with strict policy preventing
haphazard use; concerted effort to spend nonrecurring revenues on
nonrecurring expenditures; new Commission on Government
Reorganization and Effectiveness will provide the first exhaustive
review of government in 20 years.
</p>
<p> -- Ranking minuses: Some underestimation of Medicaid
spending in fiscal 1992; performance measurement needs
improvement with more emphasis on effectiveness indicators;
the first comprehensive annual financial report won't be out until
1994.
</p>
<p> -- Comments: In November's election, Republican Governor
Michael Castel played musical chairs with Democratic Congressman
Tom Carper. Now Castle is a congressman and Carper is in the
governor's seat. Despite the change, Carper has retained three of
his predecessor's cabinet secretaries, including the budget director,
showing a "devotion to budgetary stability," says one observer.
Otherwise, much of diverse cabinet is imported - via headhunters -
from other states. Health care commission, started by Castle,
continues. Approach focuses on managed care, but action probably
will await clearer signs from Washington, D.C. Likeliest
gubernatorial change is increased attention to social services.
An FBI sting in the zoning area shook up the state last year.
The former secretary of transportation, who pleaded guilty to
extortion, went to prison in early April.
</p>
<p>Source: "The State of the States," Financial World Magazine,
May 11, 1993 (Vol. 161, No. 10); New York, NY.
</p>
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</article>
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