Country Descriptions & Profiles

Background Notes on Countries of the World: Dominican Republic

Published by the U.S. government, includes facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, foreign relations and travel/business information.

Dominican Republic Country Review

Published annually by CountryWatch, provides demographic, economic, business, and environmental data.

Dominican Republic Economic Competitiveness

Published by the Icon Group using vertical analysis or common-sized statements, provides estimates of the financial performance and labor productivity of countries compared to global benchmarks.  Financial analysis includes asset, liability and income structure, ratios, profitability ratios and key percentile rankings.  Labor productivity analysis includes asset-labor, liability-labor, and income-labor ratios.

Political Risk Yearbook: Dominican Republic Country Forecast

Published annually by PRS Group and includes the Political Risk Service rating system which assesses different political scenarios within a country, 18-month and five year forecasts based on a variety of political scenarios, the country’s political framework, key political player as well as economic conditions, investment, taxation and environmental trends, foreign relations, defense forces and the country’s history and geography.

Finance, Trade & Commerce

BuyUSA.gov U.S. Commercial Services: Dominican Republic

http://www.buyusa.gov/caribbean/en/

From the U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration.U.S. Commercial Service (USCS) Provides information to U.S. businesses exporting goods and services, including trade agreements, market research, trade event lists, industry specific information.

Doing Business. Benchmarking Business Regulations.

http://www.doingbusiness.org/

Produced by the World Bank, this database provides information on business regulations and their enforcement in many countries. Countries are ranked according to ease of doing business. The Doing Business Indicators are comparable across 175 economies. These indicators include starting a business, dealing with licenses, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, enforcing contracts, and others.

Global Edge: Dominican Republic

http://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/Dominican-Republic

Created by the Center for International Business Education and Research at Michigan State University ( MSU-CIBER ), globalEDGE contains country specific news, statistics, history, economics, and government data.

Index of Economic Freedom: Dominican Republic

http://www.heritage.org/Index/Country/DominicanRepublic

A Web resource evaluating the following areas:trade policy, fiscal burden of government, government intervention in the economy, monetary policy, capital flows and foreign investment, banking and finance, wages and prices, property rights, regulation, and black market.

Statistics & Government Resources

Banco Central de la Republica Dominicana

http://www.bancentral.gov.do/

The official Web site of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic includes information on currency rates, monetary policy, statistics and much more.

Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Washington D.C.

http://www.domrep.org/

Information about business and investment. Also contains information about flora and fauna, education, travel and tourism, visas, immigration, history, geography, people and culture.

U.S. Embassy to the Dominican Republic

http://santodomingo.usembassy.gov/