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Population	87.89 mln
Population growth	2%
Life expectancy	72 years
Net migration	-900,000

Economy

GDP	$144.06 bln
- per capita	$1,639
- growth rate	7%
FDI, net inflows	$2.93 bln

Infrastructure

Cellphone users	59%
Internet users	6%
High-tech exports	54%

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Terremoto de Haití podría marcar inicio de ciclo sísmico

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"El terremoto registrado en Haití en enero de 2010 podría marcar el inicio de un nuevo ciclo de actividad sísmica con “devastadores terremotos” que afectarán toda la isla de La Española, conformada por Haití y República Dominicana, dicen investigadores. "El estudio, publicado en la edición de febrero del Boletín de la Sociedad de Sismología de Estados Unidos (BSSA), analizó los registros de temblores ocurridos en la isla en los 500 años transcurridos desde la época colonial hasta 2010 y de los more...

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John Daly on February 29, 2012

Analysis of legislation related to disaster risk reduction in the Dominican Republic

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This case study outlines the considerable progress that has been made in the Dominican Republic to develop and implement disaster risk reduction (DRR) legislation while noting ongoing challenges, such as effective integration of DRR considerations in sectors where there is a tendency to focus on response.

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Moushumi Biswas on March 18, 2012

The Dominican Republic- Central America- United States Free Trade Agreement

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On May 28, 2004, the United States, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua signed the U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). On August 5, 2004, the Dominican Republic, having completed separate negotiations with the United States, was added to the agreement in a subsequent signing by all parties. The new agreement was titled the Dominican Republic- Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement, or the DR-CAFTA. Since negotiations began in January 2003, it more...

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Clotilde EKOKA DIKANDA on July 24, 2009

Video: Sex Workers Confront HIV

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Confronted with the horrific realities of HIV/AIDS, sex workers in the Dominican Republic have banded together to create a united women's movement. They help increase awareness of prevention techniques, resources and safety, as well as serving as volunteers in a revolutionary HIV vaccine trial.

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Farina Ahmed on August 08, 2011

DRR legislation - Enhancing disaster risk reduction through legislation, particularly at the community level

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This fact sheet addresses the question of how laws can work for communities to prevent disasters. It describes the community-level action and the way to improve how country laws deal with disaster risk reduction (DRR), presenting some of the best practices (from Nepal, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Philippines and Sweden) that States and National Societies may consider in doing so.

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Farina Ahmed on August 18, 2011

Human rights violations by police in the Dominican Republic

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Authorities in the Dominican Republic must urgently reform their police force to tackle alarming levels of killings and torture, Amnesty International said in this new report.This report documents scores of cases of killings, torture and ill-treatment at the hands of police, gathered during three research missions in the country and the lack of effective investigations

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Sonia Hossain on October 26, 2011

National Drug Threat Assessment 2011

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This s a comprehensive assessment of the threat posed to the United States by the trafficking and abuse of illicit drugs. It provides a detailed strategic analysis of the domestic drug situation during FY2010, based upon the most recent law enforcement, intelligence, and public health data available for the period. This report addresses emerging developments related to the trafficking and use of primary illicit substances of abuse, the non-medical use of CPDs, and the laundering of proceeds more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 08, 2012

Subsidising education: are school vouchers the solution?

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Good quality education is out of reach for many poor people, due to its high costs. Governments try to make it more accessible by subsidizing it. School vouchers provide one means subsidize education. However, this evidence is limited to two cases in Latin America with a well developed institutional structure, Colombia and Chile. The relevance of voucher schemes for other developing countries, and how replicable they are to other contexts, is unclear. More evidence is needed from more countries more...

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Sonia Hossain on July 24, 2011

Did Trade Openness Affect Income Distribution in Latin America?

This paper offers a medium-term perspective for analyzing the trade openness–inequality relationship in Latin America. Three contributions are presented. The first is that the authors assemble a database on income distribution indicators systematically estimated from household surveys with emphasis on within-country consistency of methodology, definitions, and coverage for the years 1980-2010. This 30-year database allows observing clearly that the increases in inequality throughout the 1980s more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 20, 2012

How People Face Evictions

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A new report examining how people and communities around the world face forced eviction is now available to download. Coordinated by the Development Planning Unit/University College London and the Building and Social Housing Foundation, the 'How People Face Evictions' report documents the experiences of local groups who have faced or who are facing forced eviction in various cities around the world, from Buenos Aires to Istanbul. The report gives a voice to those who are active on the ground, more...

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Silvia Guimaraes Yafai on May 27, 2011

Economic Development and Inclusion through local Broadband Access Networks

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The theme of the study is the recent experience of community-based initiatives driven by municipal governments, community organizations, local entrepreneurs associations, NGOs that have deployed sustainable local broadband connectivity services. This report provides a detailed mapping of best practice for the implementation of sustainable local broadband access networks and an analysis of the situation in Brazil, Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Peru.(Source:Inter-American Development more...

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Moushumi Biswas on August 23, 2009

Natural experiments: Working in the history lab

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The authors have a new book out, Natural Experiments of History, which explores the idea that the methodology of natural experiments used in other fields (such as natural history and economics) can be useful as a tool for historians. The article is taken from the book, focusing significantly on the comparison of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Since these two countries share the same island and have quite similar endowments of natural resources, the authors ascribe their very different more...

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John Daly on March 30, 2010

Decent work for domestic workers

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The agenda of the 99th Session of the International Labour Conference in 2010 included an item on decent work for domestic workers. It was considered necessary to adopt international standards on this subject given the historical and continued exclusion of domestic workers, mainly women and girls, from labor protection. This report has been drawn up on the basis of the replies received from governments, employers‟ and workers‟ organizations and the United Nations, and contains the essential more...

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Sonia Hossain on June 06, 2011

Piecing it together for Women and Girls. The gender dimensions of HIV-related stigma

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Globally, women and girls make up more than half of all people living with HIV. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa, which bears the brunt of the global HIV burden. The Caribbean is the only other region where the absolute number of women and girls living with HIV outnumbers men and boys. However, women account for a growing proportion of people living with HIV in Asia and Eastern Europe. It should therefore come as no surprise that the experience of HIV-related stigma today, more...

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Farina Ahmed on May 31, 2011

EU-US summit: transatlantic cooperation to be intensified

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Meeting on 21 June at the Vienna EU-US summit, EU and US leaders committed themselves to strengthen their global partnership by adopting a common line towards global challenges. "When America and the EU work together, we can accomplish big things," said President Bush. "Working together, the EU and the US may not be enough to solve the many challenges before us. But without the joint efforts of the EU and the US, these global challenges will be impossible to meet." The leaders discussed more...

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German Yáñez on June 30, 2006

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