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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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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Banco Wiese Readies Itself for Recovery
Eugenio Bertini Peru is only slowly recovering from a battering of several years of political turmoil, stalled economic restructuring, global and regional recession, a commodity price slump and the worst […]
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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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Been there, doing that
Peter Wallin Senior VP of Standard New York Securities The view that September’s debut sovereign bond put the Dominican Republic on the map for investors is […]
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Biography
Hipólito Mejía was born 60 years ago in the small northern town of Gurabo, best known for its caves that are said to resemble the grottoes of Lourdes in France. […]
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Capable of complexity
The country’s banking system is mimicking the economy: growing and becoming more sophisticated.
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Connecting the region
Tricom, probably the Dominican Republic’s best-known company, is betting on a successful expansion into Central America.