{"id":165796,"date":"2021-10-04T08:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=165796"},"modified":"2021-10-04T10:19:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:19:02","slug":"economy-could-grow-10-this-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/10\/04\/economy-could-grow-10-this-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy could grow 10% this 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Banco-Central-de-la-Republica-Dominicana-El-Dinero-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-135017\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic has published its January-August 2021 report on the Dominican economy. The Central Bank forecasts the Gross Domestic Product will increase 10% in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank reports that accumulated inflation to August 2021 for the year is 5.41% in year-on-year terms. Inflation is expected to end the year on target &#8212; 4.0% \u00b1 1.0%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International reserves levels are at US$12.93 billion as of 30 September 2021, which is equivalent to 7.4 months of imports and 14% of GDP, well above the 10% of GDP recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blessing this year has been the high level of remittances sent back by Dominicans living abroad that totaled US$7.03 billion at the end of August, for an interannual variation of 38.6%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Total exports of goods reached US$8.13 billion, million, and when compared to the same period of 2019 (pre-pandemic), exports have increased by 10.1%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bancentral.gov.do\/a\/d\/5200-informe-de-la-economia-dominicana-eneroagosto-2021\">Central Bank<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 October 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic has published its January-August 2021 report on the Dominican economy. The Central Bank forecasts the Gross Domestic Product will increase 10% in 2021. The Central Bank reports that accumulated inflation to August 2021 for the year is 5.41% in year-on-year terms. Inflation is expected to end the year &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/10\/04\/economy-could-grow-10-this-2021\/\" 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":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165796"}],"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=165796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165837,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165796\/revisions\/165837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}