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The Dominican Republic has two tax agreements in force, as reported in its response to the Peer Review questionnaire.
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The Dominican Republic has improved in several development indicators in the past decades. The country is one of the fastest growing economies. The share of the population living on less than USD 5.5 a day (2011 PPP) fell significantly between...
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Most of the difference in GDP per capita with OECD countries is explained by labour productivity. Labour productivity was about 67% lower than in the top 17 OECD economies in 2014. Capital accumulation per worker has been the main driver of labour...
The quality of government has remained fairly stable in the Dominican Republic (DR) during the past decade, as showed by the Quality of Government Index, measured by proxies of corruption, law and order, and bureaucracy quality. The country scored...
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Dominican Republic has experienced strong and sustained economic growth over the past two decades, and labour market outcomes improved. Unemployment is low, at 2.7% in 2014 according to Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean...
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The country profile includes data on the income taxes paid by workers, their social security contributions, the family benefits they receive in the form of cash transfers as well as the social security contributions and payroll taxes paid by the...
Trade ties among the Dominican Republic and China are new but flourishing. In 2014, sales to China represented 2% of total exports of goods, which were concentrated mainly in commodity products. Copper ores represented 32% of total exports followed...
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Although enrolment in pre-primary and secondary education is low compared with the Latin American average, the gap has been closing. In the region as a whole, the net secondaryschool enrolment rate increased by 20% between 2000 and 2012, but in the...
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The pension system is a contributory scheme, based on individual capitalisation accounts. All workers, both public and private, and their employers must contribute to their respective capitalisation accounts and must pay an insurance premium for...
The Dominican Republic is an upper middle-income developing country. In the trimester of January–March 2007 it experienced an exceptional growth of 9.1% in its gross domestic product (GDP), which was actually below the previous year's 10.9% in the ...
Women in the Dominican Republic face several gender-related challenges. Women are much more severely affected by unemployment than men, and their activities are more limited. Domestic violence is frequent, and seems to have increased in recent ...
Historically, the Dominican Republic has been a country of destination. Starting in the second half of the 19th century, cane-cutters were recruited to work in Dominican sugar plantations, mainly from English-speaking Caribbean countries and Haiti ...
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Distribution of Workers by Occupational Categories (Percentage, 2000) appears in Latin American Economic Outlook 2010.
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This chapter assesses the potential of digital government to improve service delivery and support inclusive growth in the Dominican Republic. It assesses digital governance as a way of building a whole-of-government approach to the use of digital...
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The Dominican Republic is a unitary country. It includes 31 provinces and the National District where the national capital, Santo Domingo, is located (). The 31 provinces are divided into 158 municipalities. The president appoints the governors of...
The Dominican Republic is divided into 31 heterogeneous provinces (incorporating 155 municipalities) and the Distrito Nacional, where the capital is situated (Santo Domingo de Guzmán). The provinces are political and administrative units that...
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