{"id":113036,"date":"2018-05-29T10:58:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T14:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=113036"},"modified":"2018-05-29T10:58:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T14:58:18","slug":"central-bank-says-dr-is-leading-in-economic-growth-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/29\/central-bank-says-dr-is-leading-in-economic-growth-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Bank says DR is leading in economic growth in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-113004\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Economic-Growth-in-DR-Central-Bank-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/>Presenting the first quarter economic performance report for 2018, the Central Bank reveals accumulated growth for January to April was up 6.7%. Monthly Economic Activity Indicator (IMAE) for April 2018 was 7.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Bank reports there was outstanding growth of 33.7% in April 2018 in the construction sector. Other sectors posting high growth rates were free zones with 14.7%, financial services with 10.1%, commerce 9.1%, health 9%, transport and warehousing 8.8%, local manufacturing 7.1%.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Bank says the numbers position the Dominican economy as leader in economic growth in t Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bancentral.gov.do\/noticias\/notas_bc\/archivos\/bc20180528.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Bank<\/a><\/p>\n<p>29 May 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presenting the first quarter economic performance report for 2018, the Central Bank reveals accumulated growth for January to April was up 6.7%. Monthly Economic Activity Indicator (IMAE) for April 2018 was 7.5%. The Central Bank reports there was outstanding growth of 33.7% in April 2018 in the construction sector. Other sectors posting high growth rates &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/29\/central-bank-says-dr-is-leading-in-economic-growth-in-latin-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}