Santo Domingo. - Showing how the country’s macroeconomic numbers have remained stable, Banks, superintendent Rafael Camilo today criticized the people who say the global financial crisis will have a calamitous impact on the Caribbean nation’s economy. “We don’t have to inopportunely augur calamities for the Dominican economy, stirring pesimism.”

The official, speaking in the American Chamber of Commerce’s (AmCham) monthly luncheon, said it’s still premature to evaluate and predict the impact the crisis will have on the country, “especially when you don’t have all the elements to judge and make the right prognoses and without considering the peculiarities of our economy and of the external factors that affect it.”

“The future of the external economy in the short term is still uncertain and in an interdependent world like today’s nobody can raise with certainty the effect it can have on our economy”, Camilo said and cautioned that it’s the free zones sector that could be most affected, considering that the United States economic contraction and imminent recession will reduce consumer demand.