Economy minister Temistocles Montas in the National Palace with the Cepal executives.
SANTO DOMINGO.- Dominican Republic could reach "high average development" in 25 years if it improves the transparency in government agencies, expands the labor market access, definitively corrects the energy industry’s imbalances and turns the agro industry into one of the economic activity’s basic pillars.
The statement is part of the Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Commission (Cepal) document “Dominican Republic in 2030: towards a cohesioned nation,” which its executive secretary Jose Luis Machinea gave to vice president Rafael Alburquerque in the National Palace yesterday.
The Government already assumes the document’s proposals as raw material for the National Development Strategy which will be submitted to Congress in October.
In the ceremony, Machinea said Dominican Republic’s dream of being part of the group of developed countries is possible and Dominicans can triple their spending power from a bit more than the 7,000 per inhabitant now to 21,200 dollars by 2030. This requires not only an average 7.2 percent annual economic growth, he said, but also to understand that "social cohesion isn’t only a goal, but a means to reach the development of countries."
To improve governance, the study recommends a plural participation of interests in the designation of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), to give the National Magistrate Council the power to designate the Prosecutor General so the post can be more independent, to reinforce vigilance Accounts Chamber’s capacity and bolster the State’s power to award contracts.
Before business and civil society leaders, the Cepal executive secretary said he’s convinced that if the country "implements more effective mechanisms which favor transparency, probity and the rendering of accounts," the results for Dominican democracy would have to be more satisfactory towards 2030.”
The study describes Dominican Republic’s sustainable farm growth "modest and volatile" in the last 15 years and proposes a recovery and modernization based on timely financing and technological improvements, and coordinated official actions for the development of agro-industrial productive chains.
It also proposes a strategy to improve industry’s framework and its competitive capacity and warns that the duality between the free zone companies and the national industry must be eliminated.
In the last few years entities such as the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Inter-American Development Bank have made similar proposals to reach development.
Written by: MrDom, 10 Jun 2008 8:56 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, DN
To me sounds like an "UTOPIA"... it is true that our country has a stable economy, our educational and health systems have been improved a lot lately, there are more social investments etc ... But there are so many issues to solve that 25 years won’t be enough, not because we cannot, but corruption that is our worst problem won’t be reap out from public and private sectors so quickly.
Well, if we are committed as a nation, with more justice… we can do it…
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
Senor Dom you are correct if we improve transparency and with that move toward the elimination of endemic corruption we will be well on our way ...But beware the promoters of socialism subtle as they are with their data and statistics twisted to suit their socialist message they point to a road to ruin...BEWARE
Written by: Belial, 10 Jun 2008 3:00 PM
From: United States, Texas
Will this proposal only develop the foreign and Dominican bourgeoisie and, to a lesser degree, the DR middle class?
Dominican bourgeoisie and middle class are perhaps something like 20% of the Dominican people, only about 1,800,000 people out of 9.3 M. The remaining 80% of the people may be sub-classified narrowly as the "proletariat," divided horizonally and internally into various worker income strata above $2 a day, and the "poor," for the lack of a better term.
The World Bank informs us that to be poor, one must live off less than $2 a day (in 2001 dollars) and CIA informs us that about 42% of the Dominicans live off less than $2 a day.
Will this proposal develop the 42% of the people who live off of less than $2 a day? In the past, such proposals haven't done much for the poor.
The proletariat, defined as the working at over-$2 a day, the non-poor 38% of the people, MAY get scraps and crumbs from the proposal.
The poor 42% gets nothing, if even that.
From: Dominican Republic
One of the most effective moves toward effective governing would be to totally eliminate the law which finances the political parties.
The best way to go would be to require that these parties be financed, not by the Public Teasury, but from private donations from individuals and businesses with NO STRINGS ATTACHED and on thesole basis of embracing the same values as theparty donated to.
The amount of Public funds saved would more that sustain theexisting subsidies and would therefore be beneficial to the Public Sector.
Require the Cheif Administrator (the Presidente) to select his Ministers from a list provided by a Selection Committee composed of the leading Edcators of the Universities based upon the academic andmoral qualifications of each candidate.
Establish remuneration levels for each and every Government position to start with andlimit increases to a small percent of theoriginal basic wage. Require competative exams for each position in government, no exceptions.
From: Dominican Republic
Until this and other Governments get a handle on their expendature andabandons the habit of populating the employee vacancies with "best friends", "brother's-in-law", "people owed", and the like, we're saddled with the same old corrupt bunch of crooks we vote into office every 4-6 years and deserve what we get.
The Dominican people are beginning to believe that they deserve to be supported through subsidies from birth to death andthat is the fault oftheoliticians that have no other agenda but to perpetuate their tenure in office.
This method has been tied before by several now defunct civilizaions and each time it has proven to be an exercise in futility. The most recent that I can recall have been Rome, The USSR, Cuba, The British Empire and currently the USA.
Just look at the economic mess it has left these civilizations in. Pathetic, to say the least.
TB
Written by: Belial, 10 Jun 2008 3:17 PM
From: United States, Texas
A society in which almost everything goes to the bourgeoisie and middle class, only scraps and crumbs to the proletariat, and nothing to the poor is called ... by euphoric bourgeois parasites ... a "good business climate."
"Come on you all, invest over here, it's a good business climate."
Written by: Belial, 10 Jun 2008 3:47 PM
From: United States, Texas
Elements of both the Dominican proletariat and middle class fervently believe the competition over jobs and wages between the Dominican and Haitian workers chiefly fuels the 42% rate of poverty in the DR.
According to many bourgeois economists, poverty is living off less than $2 a day.
In reality, even if illegal Haitian immigration was very low compared to current levels, 42% or more of Dominicans would still be poor, because their poverty enriches the Dominican and foreign bourgeoisie ... or, in other words, the less the poor gets, the more the rich steals.
It wasn't until the 1980s that some US labor leaders after centuries of class struggle learn that it's the unequal wages between the illegal/legal immigrants and the native workers that makes the immigrants irresistible to capitalists craving the highest rate of profit.
Some US labors leaders today finally call for wage equality or, at least, enforcement of minimum wage with big increases in the minimum wage.
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
resident commie stooge remember the great bourgeoisie will grind and crush you under the wheels of their gilded carriages as they pass by
Written by: Trujillo, 11 Jun 2008 1:30 AM
From: Dominican Republic
bourgeoisie... that word can hurt your tongue, why not just say productive people instead?
communism/socialism/21st century socialism or whatever they're calling it now is inhumane. It wants everyone to live in poverty, when our priority should be to lift people out of it. It won't let people to express themselves and be creative. What good is a "good" education when you're not allowed to put it to good use, or get a bettter paying job.
TexasBill, that's what I've thinking too about political party funding. Also, I think these subsidies are just creating parasites that would want to live from government handouts all their lives. People that don't believe in merit and hard work.
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Well, if we are committed as a nation, with more justice… we can do it…
Dominican bourgeoisie and middle class are perhaps something like 20% of the Dominican people, only about 1,800,000 people out of 9.3 M. The remaining 80% of the people may be sub-classified narrowly as the "proletariat," divided horizonally and internally into various worker income strata above $2 a day, and the "poor," for the lack of a better term.
The World Bank informs us that to be poor, one must live off less than $2 a day (in 2001 dollars) and CIA informs us that about 42% of the Dominicans live off less than $2 a day.
Will this proposal develop the 42% of the people who live off of less than $2 a day? In the past, such proposals haven't done much for the poor.
The proletariat, defined as the working at over-$2 a day, the non-poor 38% of the people, MAY get scraps and crumbs from the proposal.
The poor 42% gets nothing, if even that.
The best way to go would be to require that these parties be financed, not by the Public Teasury, but from private donations from individuals and businesses with NO STRINGS ATTACHED and on thesole basis of embracing the same values as theparty donated to.
The amount of Public funds saved would more that sustain theexisting subsidies and would therefore be beneficial to the Public Sector.
Require the Cheif Administrator (the Presidente) to select his Ministers from a list provided by a Selection Committee composed of the leading Edcators of the Universities based upon the academic andmoral qualifications of each candidate.
Establish remuneration levels for each and every Government position to start with andlimit increases to a small percent of theoriginal basic wage. Require competative exams for each position in government, no exceptions.
The Dominican people are beginning to believe that they deserve to be supported through subsidies from birth to death andthat is the fault oftheoliticians that have no other agenda but to perpetuate their tenure in office.
This method has been tied before by several now defunct civilizaions and each time it has proven to be an exercise in futility. The most recent that I can recall have been Rome, The USSR, Cuba, The British Empire and currently the USA.
Just look at the economic mess it has left these civilizations in. Pathetic, to say the least.
TB
"Come on you all, invest over here, it's a good business climate."
According to many bourgeois economists, poverty is living off less than $2 a day.
In reality, even if illegal Haitian immigration was very low compared to current levels, 42% or more of Dominicans would still be poor, because their poverty enriches the Dominican and foreign bourgeoisie ... or, in other words, the less the poor gets, the more the rich steals.
It wasn't until the 1980s that some US labor leaders after centuries of class struggle learn that it's the unequal wages between the illegal/legal immigrants and the native workers that makes the immigrants irresistible to capitalists craving the highest rate of profit.
Some US labors leaders today finally call for wage equality or, at least, enforcement of minimum wage with big increases in the minimum wage.
communism/socialism/21st century socialism or whatever they're calling it now is inhumane. It wants everyone to live in poverty, when our priority should be to lift people out of it. It won't let people to express themselves and be creative. What good is a "good" education when you're not allowed to put it to good use, or get a bettter paying job.
TexasBill, that's what I've thinking too about political party funding. Also, I think these subsidies are just creating parasites that would want to live from government handouts all their lives. People that don't believe in merit and hard work.