{"id":12180,"date":"2006-03-31T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/lending-up-in-2005\/"},"modified":"2006-03-31T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T01:43:56","slug":"lending-up-in-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2006\/03\/31\/lending-up-in-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Lending up in 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A release from the Superintendence of Banks indicates that business sectors stepped up their borrowing in 2005. The Superintendence says that this was one of the reasons for the 9.3% growth reported last year. Borrowing during 2004-2005 was up by 16%, going from RD$172 million to RD$200 million. Last year construction was up by 6%, trade reported a 20% increase, farming 7% and transport 10%, according to the Central Bank. The Superintendence says that the change of government brought about a reversal of the business sector&#8217;s reticence to take on loans. The increase in borrowing also coincided with a significant decline in interest rates. Bank loans were up by 17%, and banks lent out RD$161 billion in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A release from the Superintendence of Banks indicates that business sectors stepped up their borrowing in 2005. The Superintendence says that this was one of the reasons for the 9.3% growth reported last year. Borrowing during 2004-2005 was up by 16%, going from RD$172 million to RD$200 million. Last year construction was up by 6%, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2006\/03\/31\/lending-up-in-2005\/\" 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\/12180"}],"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=12180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}