President Danilo Medina met with several members of the World Bank board at the Presidential Palace in Santo Domingo yesterday, Monday 11 November and discussed issues including the problems that continue to plague the electricity sector.
Medina also shared his vision and listed the challenges ahead in areas like education, poverty, social inequality, agriculture and competitiveness.
At a press conference following the meeting, Denny Kalyalya, executive director of the World Bank board, said that these priorities would be analyzed so that they could potentially become involved by the middle of next year.
According to Kalyalya, Medina said that solving the electricity issue was his key priority.
The World Bank was represented at the meeting by Sundan Annamalai from Malaysia, Cesar Guido Forcieri from Argentina, Vadim Nikolayevich Grishin from Russia, Gwendolen Lucy Hines from the UK, Agapito Mendes Dias from St. Thomas, Juan Roberto Tan from the Philippines, Michael Thomas Willcock from Australia, Wieslaw Leonard Szczuka from Poland, Giedre Balcytyte from Lithuania, and Samir M. Suleymanov from Azerbaijan.
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