{"id":134088,"date":"2019-12-10T12:29:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T12:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=134088"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:44:07","slug":"the-dominican-economy-continues-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/12\/10\/the-dominican-economy-continues-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dominican economy continues to grow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Growth-Chart-Pixabay.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-134110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Growth-Chart-Pixabay.jpg 960w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Growth-Chart-Pixabay-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Growth-Chart-Pixabay-768x560.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Central Bank, the economy of the Dominican Republic continues to outperform the average GDP in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Gross Domestic Product grew 5.2% in October 2019, leading to the prediction of an estimated end of year figure of 5% of GDP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank says that growth would have been even higher if it were not for the negative campaign against tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From January to October 2019, the economic growth was 4.8% despite 90% of the countries in the world being affected by a deceleration in economic activity due to socio-political problems and trade disputes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main growth sectors were construction with 14.9%, mining 10.4%, water and energy 7.6%, other service activities 7.6%, financial services 6.7%, real estate 5.1%, transport and warehousing 4.4%, and agriculture 4.3%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bancentral.gov.do\/a\/d\/4738-actividad-economica-alcanza-crecimiento-de-52-en-el-mes-de-octubre-de-2019\">Banco Central<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 December 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Central Bank, the economy of the Dominican Republic continues to outperform the average GDP in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Gross Domestic Product grew 5.2% in October 2019, leading to the prediction of an estimated end of year figure of 5% of GDP. The Central Bank says that growth would have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/12\/10\/the-dominican-economy-continues-to-grow\/\" 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\/134088"}],"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=134088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134111,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134088\/revisions\/134111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}