The Association of Foreign Firms (ASIEX) has announced that during 1999 it will conduct the first detailed inventory in decades of all foreign investment in the Dominican Republic. ASIEX says that a comprehensive study with reliable data is long overdue, and will assist Dominican government agencies in planning strategies, policies and programs, and in promoting the country to foreign investors. ASIEX plans to work with the Central Bank, the Office for the Promotion of Foreign Investment (OPI-RD), the Dominican Association of Free Zones (ADOZONA) and the National Association of Hotels and Restaurants (ASONAHORES) in compiling and producing the report.