We must strive to strengthen our national project
1. They say that "the economy grew 7.8%!". The Dominicans, we must begin to question such "good news" because it really is a rare growth, abnormal, breaking with many parameters, and what is beyond dispute is less than the majority because its fruits are poorly distributed, and we have a national fragile and integrator.
2. We grow with high unemployment, double the average for Latin America, with a brutal denationalization of labor markets, typical of an area of \u200b\u200bwild capitalism, with real wages in the early 90's, with few links to productivity, with a class average rather than consolidate and expand is constrained, while the poverty assistance programs reinforce attitudes.
3. Similarly, we must question that growth for its high concentration, low social spending and much imbalance between regions. The concentration we can observe in the property, credit, business opportunities, information, and especially in market failures. The low social spending can be seen, painfully, in the budgets allocated to education, health and basic services, and regional disparities, glaring into the dangerous neglect suffered by the West and the frontier provinces.
4. What are the bases of that growth? It is true we have a tremendous potential to become one of the strongest economies and diversified across the region, but it is also true that some of its most dynamic in this is being boosted by shady forces and interests, through and money laundering schemes easy profit and consumption of super luxury.
5. The social and national balance of that growth - "the highest and sustained" throughout Latin America in recent decades - is one of exclusion, marginalization, informality. Something which in turn weakens the bonds of millions of Dominicans in a state marked by a policy, more capable of dispensing favors to guarantee rights, and from these and other weaknesses, has increasing difficulties in the exercise of self-determination in areas of sovereignty and territorial integrity.
6. Is this growth sustainable? The answer is no. I have the impression that without increased and sustained process external borrowing - stimulated or tolerated by the international organizations, in obedience to the geopolitical realities of island - as well as the avenues open to facilitate the flight abroad of our best human resources, the national crisis would be much more profound, complex, controversial.
7. The Dominicans must strive to strengthen our national project for the economic growth resulting from real benefit to all, ie, an inclusive growth. And the national project is strengthened when the ruling classes are able to arrive at agreements, when they have the will to enforce them in time, when the main purpose of such is the interest of nation and its great majority, and especially when they are able to convert them into public policies increasingly encourage the integration of a greater number of citizens in the production, consumption and effective citizenship. That is the great challenge .... and hope.
2. We grow with high unemployment, double the average for Latin America, with a brutal denationalization of labor markets, typical of an area of \u200b\u200bwild capitalism, with real wages in the early 90's, with few links to productivity, with a class average rather than consolidate and expand is constrained, while the poverty assistance programs reinforce attitudes.
3. Similarly, we must question that growth for its high concentration, low social spending and much imbalance between regions. The concentration we can observe in the property, credit, business opportunities, information, and especially in market failures. The low social spending can be seen, painfully, in the budgets allocated to education, health and basic services, and regional disparities, glaring into the dangerous neglect suffered by the West and the frontier provinces.
4. What are the bases of that growth? It is true we have a tremendous potential to become one of the strongest economies and diversified across the region, but it is also true that some of its most dynamic in this is being boosted by shady forces and interests, through and money laundering schemes easy profit and consumption of super luxury.
5. The social and national balance of that growth - "the highest and sustained" throughout Latin America in recent decades - is one of exclusion, marginalization, informality. Something which in turn weakens the bonds of millions of Dominicans in a state marked by a policy, more capable of dispensing favors to guarantee rights, and from these and other weaknesses, has increasing difficulties in the exercise of self-determination in areas of sovereignty and territorial integrity.
6. Is this growth sustainable? The answer is no. I have the impression that without increased and sustained process external borrowing - stimulated or tolerated by the international organizations, in obedience to the geopolitical realities of island - as well as the avenues open to facilitate the flight abroad of our best human resources, the national crisis would be much more profound, complex, controversial.
7. The Dominicans must strive to strengthen our national project for the economic growth resulting from real benefit to all, ie, an inclusive growth. And the national project is strengthened when the ruling classes are able to arrive at agreements, when they have the will to enforce them in time, when the main purpose of such is the interest of nation and its great majority, and especially when they are able to convert them into public policies increasingly encourage the integration of a greater number of citizens in the production, consumption and effective citizenship. That is the great challenge .... and hope.