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"My name is The Patriot, my fatherland is Santo Domingo, my condition is Citizen, my religion is the love of truth and justice, and my occupations are to boldly attack vice and loudly praise virtue".
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I'd say it would give them a run for their money at least, specially since now we are even receiving health tourists here coming from the US (as unbelievable as it may sound) due to the exhorbitant costs of said service there vs here (Cranberry here may know some, as he used to be an expat himself).
"My name is The Patriot, my fatherland is Santo Domingo, my condition is Citizen, my religion is the love of truth and justice, and my occupations are to boldly attack vice and loudly praise virtue".
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My point is that the DR, much more than the likes of Bahamas and Barbados, is well within Third World norms (for want of a better term) when it comes to corruption, government malfeasance, illiteracy and limited access to healthcare, and that would most likely still be the case with or without the presence of Haiti. As even axel aleman has said, it is political systems and policies, not demographics, that are the main decider for how prosperous a country is, and it is quite clear that the DR since at least the days of Trujillo, if not earlier, has had policies that overwhelmingly benefit a small elite while only at most paying lip service to the welfare of the majority.
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See where the DR appears in these measurements compared to Cuba (and lots of other Latin American and Caribbean countries too):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...elopment_Index
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrup...ceptions_Index
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Tooting Carmen las islas que mencionas del caribe anglo superando a República Dominicana son mucho más prósperas que República Dominicana. Republica Dominicana supera por mucho en renta per capital a Cuba y si EEUU sueltas puerto rico este último se vuelve otro Haití. Así que del Caribe Hispano República Dominicana es el país mejor posicionado. A las islas del caribe anglo deben ser comparadas con Portugal, países exsovieticos de similar renta per capita y territorios como el estado de missipi
A favor de la Unión del Caribe Hispano: Cuba, República Dominicana, Puerto Rico y Panamá
Mi mapa de Ancestros hace 4500 años atras
Como buen panameño tengo: genetica española, aborigen guanche, judia sefardita, amerindia y negra lo unico exotico
es el asiatico oriental debido a un bisabuelo chino
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Hey, if you wish to take the human development index as the holy grail for measuring development, go fot it, but I personally think it's BS. Both Venezuela and Cuba are above DR, but good luck convincing the thousands of Venezuelans and the Cubans in DR (numbers way less than Venezuelans) to go back to their respective countries since their HDI is higher than ours.
I live in DR and know my country very well. Corruption is relatively high. Could it be less, and should it be less? Yes, but I am also not stupid and know that having high or low corruption is not the one factor that will determine our prosperity. Corruption won't disappear. It's part of our culture and society. It's also part of our culture and society to be highly entrepreneurial and hard-working. Combine that with the fact that Dominican love stability, heck, it took 16 years of crappy government for Dominicans to go out and peacefully protest. Some might see the above as a submissive population, but I see it as stability.
Combine political and social stability with a highly motivated population that wants to be left alone and make money, and you have the perfect receipt for a prosperous country. Is it perfect, and will our HDI ever surpass the likes of Cuba? No, will corruption disappear? I highly doubt it. Will we soon be economically above all those tourist-dependent tiny islands and most of our neighbors? Most certainly.
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A favor de la Unión del Caribe Hispano: Cuba, República Dominicana, Puerto Rico y Panamá
Mi mapa de Ancestros hace 4500 años atras
Como buen panameño tengo: genetica española, aborigen guanche, judia sefardita, amerindia y negra lo unico exotico
es el asiatico oriental debido a un bisabuelo chino
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