Weekly Report - 12 January 2012 (WR-12-02)

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | Growth. The Dominican Republic’s GDP grew 4.5% in 2011, the governor of the central bank, Héctor Valdez Albizu, revealed. The Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) government of President Leonel Fernández expressed its satisfaction with the figure, which is above the Central American average of 4.1% cited in a December report by the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America (Eclac). Eclac projects 4.5% growth again for the Dominican Republic for 2012, above the 3.7% average for the sub-region.

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