{"id":34065,"date":"2012-09-27T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/uk-investment-in-the-dr-nears-a-billion-dollars\/"},"modified":"2012-09-27T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T01:43:56","slug":"uk-investment-in-the-dr-nears-a-billion-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/09\/27\/uk-investment-in-the-dr-nears-a-billion-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"UK investment in the DR nears a billion dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> According to the executive director of the Center for Exports and Investment in the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD), Jean Alain Rodriguez, the principal speaker at a luncheon hosted by the British Embassy in Santo Domingo, British investment in the country is now over US$800 million. <\/p>\n<p> He said that the investments are in energy, services, pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, film industry and others and that the DR has a favorable balance of trade with the UK. <\/p>\n<p> He went on to say that given that foreign investment is the main driver of the Dominican economy, CEI-RD continues to implement an aggressive strategy aimed at attracting more investment by promoting the advantages of the country&#8217;s geographical location, economic stability, natural resources and above all institutional and legal security. <\/p>\n<p> He emphasized that they were also encouraging the export of Dominican products by highlighting their quality and competitiveness in international markets. Rodriguez said that exports to the UK totaled US$117 million last year. <\/p>\n<p> www.diariolibre.com\/noticias\/2012\/09\/26\/i353376_inversion-reino-unido-supera-los-us800.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the executive director of the Center for Exports and Investment in the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD), Jean Alain Rodriguez, the principal speaker at a luncheon hosted by the British Embassy in Santo Domingo, British investment in the country is now over US$800 million. He said that the investments are in energy, services, pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/09\/27\/uk-investment-in-the-dr-nears-a-billion-dollars\/\" 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":[231,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34065"}],"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=34065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}