Weekly Report - 13 September 2012 (WR-12-36)

President Danilo Medina has launched an ambitious plan to eradicate illiteracy in the Dominican Republic by September 2014. Ambitious not just because illiteracy afflicts some 727,000 Dominicans (7% of the country’s population of 10.2m) or because educational standards are the lowest in the region, but also because on the very day he announced the plan, a team from the IMF touched down in Santo Domingo to highlight the fiscal challenges faced by his government.

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