President Hipólito Mejía has ambitious plans for the remainder of his term.
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Primer Banco del Istmo’s Regional Mission
Primer Banco del Istmo is Panama’s largest bank, and is larger than every private sector bank in Central America in terms of assets. But that doesn’t mean its management is […]
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Touching down in new markets
Foreign direct investment and innovative financial structures are upgrading the tourism infrastructure.
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A country under-mined
Efforts are underway to increase foreign investment in the mining sector.
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Where are the aficionados now?
With the boom years of the nineties long gone, manufacturers in one of the Dominican Republic’s most distinctive industries – cigar production – must now confront a further period of […]
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A Dollar Republic?
Could the Dominican Republic be a candidate for dollarisation? It shares some obvious characteristics with El Salvador, which recently adopted the dollar: most notably a high dependence on the US, […]
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Will the good times roll on?
The country’s free zones have created 200,000 jobs and an export boom, but are now trying to stay out of the chill winds from a US downturn.
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Banco BISA Branches Out to Overcome Challenges
Competition with foreign banks such as Citibank and BSCH’s Banco Santa Cruz have kept Banco BISA, Bolivia’s largest domestically owned bank, on its toes this past year. The bank is […]
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Aiming for the major leagues
The Dominican Republic has a sound economy and a buoyant export market – and a fine reputation for baseball. Now the Caribbean country needs to fix itself in the minds of international investors.
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Banco Bolivariano Survives the Storm
Miguel Babra Lyon The Ecuadorian banking system collapsed in 1999, and the banks left standing are still reeling from the aftershocks. In July, the Ecuadorian government shut down the country’s […]