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Dominican Central Bank Reports 29% Growth In Remittances

YoungUpstarts

The Dominican Republic has emerged victorious in this struggle. Over the last 5 years the Dominican Republic was a fast growing Caribbean economy. In 2018 remittances to the Dominican Republic accounted for more than 7% of the country’s GDP. Remittances to the Dominican Republic averaged $312.9

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A Conversation with 2020 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang

View from Seed

I started Venture for America back in 2011 with the goal of creating thousands of American jobs in communities around the country. One in five prime working age American men has not worked in the last twelve months, and our labor force participation rate is down to 62.9%, the same levels as El Salvador the Dominican Republic.