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Press Release No. 03/219 December 17, 2003 Dominican Republic Press Statement (a wonderful example of diplomatic double-talk) An IMF mission left Santo Domingo today after reaching technical-level understandings on economic policies for the first review of the country's Stand-by Arrangement...

Economist Frederic Emam Zade focused in his Saturday column in El Caribe newspaper on how the government has found a new scapegoat. In his imaginary dialogue between two Dominicans, Emam Zade highlights how the government no longer has the Fern?ndez government to blame for its economic problems...

Who needs the Central Bank? Economist Frederic Emam Zade writes in El Caribe on Saturday, 24 May regarding his doubts of the merits of a Central Bank in the Dominican Republic._ Emam Zade explains that because we have a small and open economy, with trade and monetary relations closely tied to...

eFlash from: Standard New York Securities, Inc. (Miami Branch) DominicRepublic- Too Little, Too Late? -11 February 2003- The deterioration in domestic confidence that we highlighted in our last report (Nov. 25, 2002) continued into 2003. The Dominican consumer has since been hit with...

Sovereign Debt Research (abstract) ? As we have been reporting, the Dominican peso continues to be under pressure due to a combination of a relentless and ongoing terms-of-trade shock (the same one that has hit all non-oil exporting countries) and local speculative forces. ? We continue to...

The Central Bank just posted its Economic Report for jan-june 2002. It can be downloaded from: http://www.bancentral.gov.do/pubeco.html It appears as: INFORME DE LA ECONOMIA DOMINICANA Enero-Junio 2002. 1. Indice-Presentaci?n-Ap?ndice (Archivo .pdf, 527 Kb) 2. Contenido Parte I (Archivo...