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President Hipólito Mejía has ambitious plans for the remainder of his term.

Foreign direct investment and innovative financial structures are upgrading the tourism infrastructure.

Efforts are underway to increase foreign investment in the mining sector.

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 […]

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, […]

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.

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.

        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 […]

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. […]

The country’s banking system is mimicking the economy: growing and becoming more sophisticated.