The country progresses but inequality lingers
Poverty December 15, 2020 | 10:56 am
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Republic ranked 88 out of 189 analyzed in the Human Development Index, gaining one position over the previous year, according to the most recent UNDP report. The advan[...]Pandemic rocks the levels of poverty: report
Poverty December 1, 2020 | 10:40 am
Santo Domingo.- Extreme moderate and general monetary poverty indices in the Dominican Republic were rocked by the pandemic, increasing its incidence on the population between 2.4 and 6.5 percentage p[...]Dominican economy grows and grows, but so does poverty
Poverty November 27, 2020 | 7:56 am
Santo Domingo. - Economy Minister Miguel Ceara Hatton, on Thur. said that a part of the Dominican population is impacted by poverty because the economy grows "a lot," but it exploits and excludes a la[...]UN: Haiti tries to avoid “precipice of instability”
Local October 6, 2020 | 4:16 pm
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Turmoil pushes nearly 87,000 Haitians across Dominican border
Local October 6, 2020 | 8:40 am
Santo Domingo.- Haiti’s current turmoil leads to the increasingly intense migratory flow of its citizens to the Dominican Republic. Legal and illegal, its massive presence is evident: only in the[...]Pandemic forces 70,000 Haitians to return home
Poverty September 8, 2020 | 9:27 am
Santo Domingo.- Since the coronavirus pandemic began in the country last March, and until July, some 70,000 Haitians have returned to their country voluntarily to avoid contagion, due to lack of sourc[...]River bank dwellers fear flooding
Poverty July 30, 2020 | 10:51 am
Santo Domingo.- The residents of the slum Rivera del Ozama on Thursday expressed their fear of a swelled river due to Tropical Storm Isaías. "It is time to clean the banks of this river, they have[...]Poverty will grip 24.7% of Dominicans this year: UN
Poverty July 16, 2020 | 8:07 am
Santo Domingo.- Poverty in the Dominican Republic will affect 24.7% of the population this year, increasing more than four percentage points in relation to the 20.3% registered in 2019, according to t[...]Las Malvinas II, a poor town threatened by covid-19 and malaria in the Dominican Republic
COVID-19 June 5, 2020 | 10:07 am
The inhabitants of Las Malvinas II, a low-income sector belonging to Villa Mella, Santo Domingo Norte, call on the health authorities to carry out massive tests of covid-19 after five cases have[...]Haitian immigrants look to leave the Dominican Republic
Poverty May 22, 2020 | 5:26 pm
Santo Domingo.- Various institutions are carrying out a plan to repatriate Haitian immigrants living in the Dominican Republic after losing their means of subsistence due to the economic impact of mea[...]Gov. rejects 600K requests for ‘Stay at Home’ aid
Poverty April 30, 2020 | 8:12 am
Santo Domingo.- Vice President, Margarita Cedeño, on Wednesday said they’ve discarded 600,000 requests out of a million they received from people to be included in the government aid program "Stay [...]Low-price foods for trying times
Poverty April 20, 2020 | 3:57 pm
Santo Domingo.- The Price Stability Institute (INESPRE) on Monday announced the start of comprehensive sales of farm and household products at low prices through its Mobile Warehouse program. El Nu[...]UN praises reduced undernourishment but ‘stay alert’
Poverty February 14, 2020 | 12:38 pm
Santo Domingo.- Despite the reduction in undernourishment levels in the Dominican Republic in recent years, the country must remain alert about the increase in obesity and overweight levels, as well a[...]Govt.: 1.5M+ Dominicans leave poverty from 2012 to 2019
Poverty February 6, 2020 | 9:47 am
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Government on Wed. affirmed that from 2012 to 2019 more than 1.5 million Dominicans emerged from poverty and 650,000 Dominicans have overcome extreme poverty. On its w[...]Near Bahia de ls Águilas; squalid cave to overcrowded houses
Poverty February 4, 2020 | 2:19 pm
Pedernales, Dominican Republic.- Boat transport business leader Marcelino Reyes on Tues. slammed the government for having “sentenced” 15 families to live in overcrowded homes after evicting them [...]Jobless young people ‘very serious’ at 53.3%
Economy January 30, 2020 | 4:17 pm
Santo Domingo.- More than 100 youth leaders from 38 organizations together with Labor Ministry representatives and members of Ceduca (Center for Education and Development) gathered at the V Inter-muni[...]Corruption widens inequality among Dominicans
Poverty January 13, 2020 | 11:49 am
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Republic is the eighth most corrupt country in Latin America and the Caribbean, ranked 129th among 180 countries, as published by Transparency International - TI- in 2018[...]Labor unions’ top challenge: fight wages of misery
Poverty January 2, 2020 | 8:57 am
Santo Domingo.- 2019 was a year of accomplishments and opportunities to tweak the goals that could not be achieved. But for some sectors, as in the case of labor unions, they understand that the wo[...]The ‘Nochemala’ (sad Christmas Eve) of the poor
Local December 23, 2019 | 7:46 am
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