{"id":44195,"date":"1999-01-15T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1999-01-15T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/dr-seeks-us1-billion-in-foreign-investment-in-1999\/"},"modified":"1999-01-15T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1999-01-15T01:43:56","slug":"dr-seeks-us1-billion-in-foreign-investment-in-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/01\/15\/dr-seeks-us1-billion-in-foreign-investment-in-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"DR seeks US$1 billion in foreign investment in 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his address to the International section of France&#146;s top business body, Le Mouvement des Enterprises de France (MEDEF, still referred to by many by its pre-October 1998 name, &quot;Le Patronat&quot;), President Fern?ndez declared that a top goal of his government is to attract US$1 billion in new foreign direct investment (FDI) to the DR. On Tuesday the DR&#146;s Office of Investment Promotion (OPI) reported that annual FDI flows into the Dominican Republic rose to US$634.93 in 1998, a hike of 56.7% over 1997. Thus the Fern?ndez Administration is hoping for a similar percentage rise in FDI inflows in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his address to the International section of France&#146;s top business body, Le Mouvement des Enterprises de France (MEDEF, still referred to by many by its pre-October 1998 name, &quot;Le Patronat&quot;), President Fern?ndez declared that a top goal of his government is to attract US$1 billion in new foreign direct investment (FDI) to the DR. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/01\/15\/dr-seeks-us1-billion-in-foreign-investment-in-1999\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44195"}],"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=44195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}