{"id":249761,"date":"2026-04-09T07:48:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=249761"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:33:10","slug":"world-bank-forecasts-sluggish-growth-amidst-dr-growth-outpaces-regional-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2026\/04\/09\/world-bank-forecasts-sluggish-growth-amidst-dr-growth-outpaces-regional-average\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank forecasts sluggish growth amidst, DR growth outpaces regional average"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Crecimiento-en-Latinoamerica-y-el-Caribe-Banco-Mundial.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-249823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Crecimiento-en-Latinoamerica-y-el-Caribe-Banco-Mundial.png 600w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Crecimiento-en-Latinoamerica-y-el-Caribe-Banco-Mundial-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Bank released its latest regional economic update on 8 April 2026, projecting that economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will slow to 2.1% this year. This is a decline from the 2.4% growth recorded in 2025, as the region grapples with persistent global headwinds, high borrowing costs, and stagnant investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report, titled &#8220;Slow Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean amid Global Uncertainty and Weak Investment,&#8221; highlights a challenging macroeconomic landscape. William Maloney, World Bank Chief Economist for LAC, emphasized that the region is missing out on major opportunities like nearshoring due to deep-seated productivity gaps and the rise of new trade barriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the broader LAC region struggles, the Dominican Republic remains a regional outlier, consistently outperforming its neighbors. In its most recent update on 31 March 2026, the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD) revised its 2026 growth forecast to a range of 3.5% to 4.0%. This represents a significant acceleration from the 2.1% GDP growth recorded in 2025. According to the BCRD\u2019s March 2026 Monetary Policy Report, the local economy is expected to be driven by a recovery in private investment and a resilient tourism sector, despite a &#8220;complex and turbulent&#8221; international context dominated by Middle Eastern geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic is taking actions to capitalize on its strategic geographic proximity to the US market and new nearshoring opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2026\/04\/08\/lac-economic-update-april-2026\">World Bank <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 April 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank released its latest regional economic update on 8 April 2026, projecting that economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will slow to 2.1% this year. This is a decline from the 2.4% growth recorded in 2025, as the region grapples with persistent global headwinds, high borrowing costs, and stagnant investment. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2026\/04\/09\/world-bank-forecasts-sluggish-growth-amidst-dr-growth-outpaces-regional-average\/\" 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":[340,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249761"}],"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=249761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249824,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249761\/revisions\/249824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}