{"id":3670,"date":"2003-04-23T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2003-04-23T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/central-bank-has-surplus\/"},"modified":"2003-04-23T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2003-04-23T01:43:56","slug":"central-bank-has-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/04\/23\/central-bank-has-surplus\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Bank has surplus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic announced yesterday that the balance of payments account showed a surplus of US$308.5 million for the first quarter of the year, in contrast to a US$90.5-million deficit for the same period last year. The Central Bank attributed the surplus to a reactivation of exports from the industrial free zones, a 26.6% growth in tourism, and renewed family remittances. According to the Central Bank, the upsurge of these external factors indicates a notable recovery from 2002. The Central Bank?s preliminary report cites the growth in hotels, bars, restaurants, free trade zones, local exports and remittances as the sources for the surplus dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic announced yesterday that the balance of payments account showed a surplus of US$308.5 million for the first quarter of the year, in contrast to a US$90.5-million deficit for the same period last year. The Central Bank attributed the surplus to a reactivation of exports from the industrial free &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/04\/23\/central-bank-has-surplus\/\" 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":[20,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670"}],"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=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}