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Weekly Report - 1 July 2003

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

The government of the Dominican Republic has sent a letter of intent to the IMF underpinning a standby credit arrangement agreed in principle, which would almost certainly pave the way for loans from the World Bank and the IDB. 

The commitments in the letter: 

* Freeze salaries of government workers for the rest of the year. 
* Reduce the fiscal and quasi-fiscal deficits to 1% of the gross domestic product in 2003 and by 2% in 2004. 
* Dissolve the Baninter Group and its properties as soon as possible and pay depositors. 
* Improve supervision of commercial banking. 
* Adjust spending on government projects to a level that does not exceed 5.1% of the GDP for 2003. 
* Work towards the unification of the exchange rate. 
* Work with international financial organisations in order to produce a fiscal reform package for 2004. 

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