{"id":210383,"date":"2024-01-30T08:44:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=210383"},"modified":"2024-01-30T09:01:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T13:01:52","slug":"central-bank-economy-grew-2-4-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/01\/30\/central-bank-economy-grew-2-4-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Bank: Economy grew 2.4% in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Banco-Central-de-la-RD-Listin-Diario-1024x645.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191084\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank published insights into the performance of the Dominican Republic in 2023. In its 28 January 2024 update, the Central Bank highlights that the Dominican economy grew 2.4%, compared to 2.2%, the average growth in Latin America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The forecast is for much better numbers in 2024. The monthly indicator of economic activity (IMAE) registered an interannual expansion of 4.7% in December 2023, this being the highest monthly rate in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank reports that inflation for January-December 2023 was the lowest annual rate in the last five years, standing at 3.57%, continuing downward to settle below the target range of 4.0%\u00b11.0% established in the monetary program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news is that foreign currency earnings from tourism were US$9.83 billion, for an interannual growth of 16.9% compared to 2022. Likewise, during 2023, US$10.16 billion in remittances were received, a growth of 3.1% compared to the same period of the previous year. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) amounted to US$4.38 billion in 2023, a year-on-year increase of around 9.2%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bancentral.gov.do\/a\/d\/5862-economia-dominicana-registra-expansion-interanual-de-24--en-enerodiciembre-de-2023\">Central Bank <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 January 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank published insights into the performance of the Dominican Republic in 2023. In its 28 January 2024 update, the Central Bank highlights that the Dominican economy grew 2.4%, compared to 2.2%, the average growth in Latin America. The forecast is for much better numbers in 2024. The monthly indicator of economic activity (IMAE) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/01\/30\/central-bank-economy-grew-2-4-in-2024\/\" 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":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210383"}],"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=210383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210408,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210383\/revisions\/210408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}