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What is long chain of islands that separate the Caribbean Sea from the rest of the Atlantic Ocean?
The long chain of islands that separates the Caribbean Sea from the rest of the Atlantic Ocean is known as the Caribbean Islands. This island chain includes Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.
What is the time difference of santiago Dominican Republic and Miami?
The Dominican Republic is 1 hour ahead of Miami from the 1st Sunday of Nov. to the 2nd Sunday of March. During the rest of the year there is no time difference between Miami and the Dominican Republic.
What is the main religon in Santo Dominago Dominican Republic?
The main religion in Santo Domingo as well as the rest of the Dominican Republic is Roman Catholicism. Roman Catholicism is a derivation of Christianity.
Is Miami and Dominican Republic always in the same time zone?
No, Miami (UTC-5/UTC-4) and the Dominican Republic (UTC-4) have the same time only from the 2nd Sunday of March to the 1st Sunday of November. During the rest of the year, the Dominican Republic is 1 hour ahead of Miami.
Is Haiti in Central America?
yes No, it's not. Haiti is in North America, although some mapmakers who differentiate between North and Central America will classify it as the latter. The country occupies about one-third of the island of Hispaniola, the the rest of which belongs to the Dominican Republic. Hispaniola is in the Caribbean, near Cuba and Jamaica.
Which area has the same weather of quintana roo Mexico?
The rest of the Caribbean -- Cuba, the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Jamaica -- qualifies as such.
Why is Haiti so impoverished compared to the Dominican Republic?
Although neither country is well-off by US or European standards, the Dominican Republic is doing dramatically better than its neighbor. Whereas the Dominican Republic's economy is based on exports and tourism, most Haitians work in subsistence agriculture. Over much of the last forty years, the Dominican Republic has had one of the fastest growing economies in the hemisphere while Haiti has had one of the slowest. In real estate, brokers say that the value of a property is based on three factors: location, location, and location. Yet somehow, Haiti's location has not helped its value.The International Monetary Fund took on this challenging question in a working paper entitled, Growth in the Dominican Republic and Haiti: Why has the Grass Been Greener on One Side of Hispaniola?. This working paper, prepared by Laura Jaramillo and Cemile Sancak and distributed in March 2007 tries to answer the question using the IMF's standard toolkit. As befits IMF economist, they quickly discounted the factors that Jared Diamond had raised in his excellent book, Collapse, to explain the difference such as the relative amounts of rainfall and population density. They also largely discount the impacts of each country's different history stating that prior to the US occupation of the island in the early 20th century; both countries had equally weak institutions. They admit that by 1960, there was already a divergence in income between the two countries, but a far smaller one than exists today.The paper then focuses on the specific economic variables for both countries to try and determine their impact on growth for each country between 1960 and 2005. They focused on two factors: institutional and macroeconomic stability. It is noteworthy that institutional stability is far more important than institutional legitimacy-the relative institutional stability of the coup years in Haiti (1993-1996) counted for more than the relatively chaotic years surrounding the return of President Aristide and the first election of President Preval. On the Dominican side, the authors consider the Dominican institutions to have slowly strengthened throughout the period. For macroeconomic stability, the authors found that both Haiti and the Dominican Republic were quite similar did better than the rest of Latin America in both the 1970s and 1980s. The marked difference came in the 1990s when the Dominican Republic and the rest of Latin America tamed their economies and Haiti did not.The authors then looked at a variety of other factors that could contribute to economic growth: secondary school enrollment, availability of credit, monetary policy, and trade openness. In all of these areas, the Dominican Republic made great progress and Haiti did little. Again the differences were most noted during the 1990s.The authors conclude, "The panel regression and case study approach allow us to conclude that policy decisions since 1960 have played a central role in the growth divergence between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In general, structural policies have been the key determinant of growth in both the Dominican Republic and Haiti, followed by political stability and stabilization policies. In particular, we find that the Dominican Republic has consistently outperformed Haiti and LAC in terms of implementation of structural measures, stabilization policies, as well as political stability. Meanwhile, Haiti has lagged the region in implementing structural policies, while being subject to numerous political shocks that have severely affected its growth performance. (p23)"I found this paper to be fascinating in that the authors look at the situation in the two countries from a very distinct perspective. I disagree with their conclusion that structural policies were more important than political stability, unstable institutions or those with questionable legitimacy have great difficulty in implementing structural policies. I would argue that Haiti's instability have blocked its institutions from implementing structural reforms.See alsoThe History Series:Part 1: Gold, cows, and pirates: the story of the of how the island of Hispaniola (or Quisqueya) ended up split into two countriesPart 2: The birth of the Haitian-Dominican borderPart 3: The border becomes a wall: 1936-1986Part 4: The porous border
Does it snow in the dominican repbulic?
In Spring rains a lot but the rest of the year it's pretty sunny
What time is it in the Dominican Republic?
There is no time difference between Miami (UTC-5/UTC-4) and the Dominican Republic (UTC-4) from the 2nd Sunday of March to the 1st Sunday of November. During the rest of the year, the Dominican Republic is 1 hour ahead of Miami.Dominican Republic is 1 hour ahead of Miami, Florida.
Is the majority of the population poor or wealthy in the Dominican Republic?
Dominican Republic is the wealthier country in caribean and central america and the nineth economy in the all latin america. 46% of the population is poor of which 10% is under the poorty line. The rest 54% are media class and richs.
What are 5 facts about Dominican Republic?
~ The national sport of the Dominican Republic is baseball. Dominicans make up a larger percentage of players in Major League Baseball than any country outside of North America ~ Even though Santiago is the second largest city in Dominican Republic, as of 2006 the metropolitan area of New York City had a larger population of Dominicans. ~ The Dominican Republic is the oldest European settlement. ~ The whole country had to be re-built in 1930 because of a hurricane. ~ Christopher Columbus is buried in the Dominican Republic
How do you mail package from long island new york to Dominican Republic?
You have to go to the FBI HQ up in 42nd street and let the package get processed with a postage on the package. From there they will do the rest. FYI (It's a foreign sender/receiver) That's why FBI gets a hold of it.
