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J<\/SPAN>orge Woodbridge, Costa Rican Competiveness Minister, visited the country to see the advances made here within the business climate, an achievement that was recently recognized by the World Bank through \u201cDoing Business.\u201d Mr. Woodbridge affirmed that the current climate in the Dominican Republic makes it \u201cvery easy\u201d to do business here. <\/P> He explained that he is trying to establish a sense of \u201cmutual enrichment\u201d between Dominican achievements and Costa Rican successes. <\/P> The Costa Rican official said he wanted to get to know \u201cthe good things and to try to help you understand our experiences in the investment and export fields as well as to listen to your experiences that for me are very important.\u201d He explained that he is trying to establish a sense of \u201cmutual enrichment\u201d between Dominican achievements and Costa Rican successes. Mr. Woodbridge said he decided to look into the Dominican experience \u201cbecause it has been done so well.\u201d Although he added that \u201cwe may have done some things better but, in many areas, you have done better than us.\u201d Andr\u00e9s van der Horst \u00c1lvarez, Director of the National Competitiveness Council (CNC), explained to Woodbridge that in \u201cthe CNC we have been working on improving our procedures and regulations for a long time in order to create a better business and investment climate for our country.\u201d Mr. van der Horst \u00c1lvarez emphasized that \u201cjust as the Dominican Republic has been able to reach these goals, so can Central American countries like Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. They are all capable of making Central America an attractive place for investment regardless of which country it is. I have always said that competition does not only come from among us, but rather from beyond the horizon\u2026from China where production is always increasing and from other Asian countries like India. It is with them we have to compete, not with countries like our own.\u201d Woodbridge explained that in his country there is \u201ca confusion of laws, decrees and resolutions,\u201d and that Costa Rica has a \u201cvery complicated legal structure and a convoluted legislative assembly which hinders one\u00b4s capacity to take action.\u201d \u201cWe haven\u00b4t made important reforms, first we have to make structural changes,\u201d he added. The government official announced that he invited CNC Director Andr\u00e9s van der Horst \u00c1lvarez to \u201cvisit us in Costa Rica and tell the Costa Rican people a little about what we\u00b4ve discussed here today and how we can make things better. Sometimes you can\u00b4t be a prophet in your own country.\u201d <\/P><\/TD><\/TR> Costa Rican Competiveness Minister Visits the Dominican Republic Jorge Woodbridge, Costa Rican Competiveness Minister, visited the country to see the advances made here within the business climate, an achievement that was recently recognized by the World Bank through \u201cDoing Business.\u201d Mr. Woodbridge affirmed that the current climate in the Dominican Republic makes it \u201cvery easy\u201d … Continue reading “Costa Rican Competiveness Minister Visits the Dominican Republic”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nDate of Publication: September 17, 2008 <\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"