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Still, the system is riddled with privileges for the politically well connected, leaving the majority of Dominicans eking out a living in the underpaid informal sector. Spending on health and education is anemic, even by regional standards, and the rule of law is a work in progress. An unusually candid recent United Nations Development Program report torched the country's élites for being out for themselves with no sense of the commonweal...
...country's economic troubles have conveniently handed international donors--who ponied up more than $1 billion to see it through the banking scandal--more leverage to drive reform. Most critical for business is the debilitated electricity sector: 45% of the national utility's receivables go unpaid, requiring a government subsidy of $620 million last year. Such is the bitter fruit of decades of political favoritism, and donors such as the World Bank say they want to see an aggressive--and unprecedented--crackdown on delinquent customers, no matter how, uh, connected they are. "If you don't address the issue...
...with their lives unhindered by intrusive or ineffective government. Certain stretches of the 1990s felt like that, when the Clinton White House was distracted by its personal and legal troubles and all the energy and enterprise was coming from Silicon Valley and smart city mayors and the private sector...
...can’t effectively handle censorship in-house, maybe we should take a hint from the industrial sector and outsource to China. I hear the Ministry of Culture does great work
...Curiously enough, while the financing, training facilities and guaranteed benefits are all at hand in the North Carolina experiment, the students are not. One reason may be that the closing of several manufacturing plants in the state has scared off potential recruits who often turn to the service sector and never even get the chance to learn about the consortium. The largest of its member firms, Julius Blum Inc., an Austrian-based maker of hinge, drawer and rollout systems for cabinetry, has already invested some $30 million in machinery for the training program and hired 26 of its graduates...