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Santo Domingo.- Greenhorn exporters nationwide will be taught in workshops and forums to qualify for diplomas through the First Dominican International Trade Observatory launched yesterday in the Santo Domingo Technological Institute (Intec).
The Observatory will focus on website information services and direct guidance for the user, prior to providing advisory services to companies and institutions involved in foreign trade.
Intec Foreign Trade Master coordinator Alba Henriquez and research fellow Pavel Isa head the Observatory, considered the country’s first entity with centralized international trade information and statistics.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) sponsored the event, with the support of the Industry and Commerce’s Foreign Trade Dept. (Dicoex).
Also providing support are the Customs Agency, the National Business Council (Conep), the Dominican Republic Industry Association (AIRD), the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAMDR) and the Exporters Association (Adoexpo).
USAID economic adviser Duty Green headed the inaugural, accompanied by Customs director Rafael Camilo, Intec president Rolando Guzman, and AIRD executive vice president Circe Almanzar.
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Exactly, Dreamkiller. Stop the pussy talking and get on with it.
Export what we can even rank our "universities!"
No DR universities among top 250 in Latin America
The rankings published yesterday, Wednesday 13 June by London-based consultancy firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), of the 250 best institutions of higher education in Latin America, do not include any Dominican universities. The list, in its first update after its launch in October 2011, is dominated by Brazilian, Mexican and Colombian institutions. According to the list, Brazil dominates with 65 of the 250 positions of the QS rankings for Latin America. The University of Sao Paulo is number one, and Mexico with 46 schools, Colombia with 34, Chile with 30 and Argentina with 26 round out the top five countries.
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The ranking created by QS evaluated the "250 best institutions" in Latin America according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education in the US, but operated on a much simpler basis, these classifications take into account three key aspects of each university to assign their label: size, focus, research intensity and age. Key criteria were academic reputation, employer reputation, number of studies and publications, faculty/student ratio, international faculty and international students.
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In the second position on the list was the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, followed by Brazil's State University of Campinas. The University of Chile, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the University of Los Andes in Colombia, the Monterrey Technological Institute in Mexico, the Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, the University of Concepcion, Chile and the University of Santiago de Chile fill out the top ten universities in Latin America. Other countries with institutions on the list are Peru (10), Ecuador (6), Venezuela (6), Cuba (5), Uruguay (4), Paraguay (3), Panama (2), Guatemala (1), Nicaragua (1), and Puerto Rico (1).
DR1
Again, how does the METRO improve higher education and exports?