{"id":133911,"date":"2019-12-05T12:43:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T12:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=133911"},"modified":"2019-12-05T16:43:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T16:43:06","slug":"senate-approves-borrowing-us525-million-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/12\/05\/senate-approves-borrowing-us525-million-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate approves borrowing US$525 million more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Congreso-Nacional-CDN-e1546862199262.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120784\"\/><figcaption>Photo: CDN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Senate passed two bills to increase financing for the electricity sector. One is with the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) submitted by the Executive Branch for US$400 million and another with the OPEC Fund for International Development (IFID) for US$75 million. A third loan passed by the Senate is for US$50 million with the European Investment Bank to finance public works to mitigate disasters. The fourth financing for EUR$88 million is to expand the capacity of the Santo Domingo Metro. The funding is with the France Development Agency (AFD). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iadb.org\/en\/project\/DR-L1058\">IADB<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iadb.org\/en\/project\/DR-T1170\">IADB<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/opecfund.org\/news-stories\/when-the-streets-have-light-there-is-more-confidence\">OPEC Fund<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/opecfund.org\/news-stories\/electricity-is-here-and-it-s-not-leaving\">OPEC Fund<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 December 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate passed two bills to increase financing for the electricity sector. One is with the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) submitted by the Executive Branch for US$400 million and another with the OPEC Fund for International Development (IFID) for US$75 million. A third loan passed by the Senate is for US$50 million with the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/12\/05\/senate-approves-borrowing-us525-million-more\/\" 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":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133911"}],"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=133911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133946,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133911\/revisions\/133946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}