{"id":12113,"date":"2006-03-24T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/wb-loan-for-youth-employment\/"},"modified":"2006-03-24T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T01:43:56","slug":"wb-loan-for-youth-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2006\/03\/24\/wb-loan-for-youth-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"WB loan for youth employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The World Bank Executive Directorate has approved a US$25 million loan yesterday aimed at improving the employment prospects of young people in the DR. According to Caroline Anstey, WB Director for the Caribbean, the lack of opportunities for youth is fostering dangerous behavior patterns that affect the Dominican Republic on several levels.   Diario Libre reports that the project will be applied in two phases: to deliver work experience and skills to young people through the Ministry of Labor&#8217;s Youth and Employment Program, and to broaden &#8220;second opportunity&#8221; education programs with night classes through the Ministry of Education. The loan is to be paid back in 17 years, which includes a five-year grace period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank Executive Directorate has approved a US$25 million loan yesterday aimed at improving the employment prospects of young people in the DR. According to Caroline Anstey, WB Director for the Caribbean, the lack of opportunities for youth is fostering dangerous behavior patterns that affect the Dominican Republic on several levels. Diario Libre reports &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2006\/03\/24\/wb-loan-for-youth-employment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113"}],"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=12113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}