{"id":4412,"date":"2010-12-10T01:04:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T21:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicana-online.org\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2010-12-10T01:04:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T21:04:47","slug":"noti2967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti2967\/","title":{"rendered":"President Fern\u00e1ndez Discusses Cooperation Programs with World Bank Representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"



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President Fern\u00e1ndez Discusses Cooperation Programs with World Bank Representatives <\/STRONG>
Santo Domingo, 12\/07\/2010<\/SPAN><\/P>
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D<\/SPAN>ominican President, Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, met last Friday with a commission from the Latin American and Caribbean Region, World Bank with whom he discussed the various collaboration programs sponsored by this organization in the Dominican Republic.<\/P>
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In a conversation with Ms. Cox, President Fern\u00e1ndez reviewed World Bank support for the DR\u2019s National Budget as well as other projects currently underway.<\/P>
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Representatives at the meeting included Pamela Cox, Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean
Region, the World Bank; Alejandro Cede\u00f1o, Special Assistant to the Vice President of Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank and businessman Sergio A. Jellink, also a member of the organization.<\/P>
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In a conversation with Ms. Cox, President Fern\u00e1ndez reviewed World Bank support for the DR\u2019s National Budget as well as other projects currently underway. The World Bank recently approved a $150 million dollar pay-out to be disbursed by the end of 2010, informed the Presidential Office of Information, Press and Publicity. <\/P>
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Fern\u00e1ndez, attending the 20th Ibero-American Heads of State and Government Summit in Argentina, spoke about the possibility of continuing to invest in community radio projects in rural areas. In fact, the Office of the First Lady has already developed some of these initiatives in the country\u2019s poor communities.
Ms. Cox, one of the World Bank\u2019s 24 regional Vice Presidents, said the financial institution has available resources for courses to train social communicators and teachers in the area. <\/P>
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They also spoke about the possibility of offering courses to journalists, teachers and other communication professionals who work in the Presidential press areas of the Dominican Republic.  <\/P>
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It was agreed that, at a later date, these courses will also be offered to journalists from the interior of the country. <\/P>
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The President and World Bank officials discussed the possibility of a loan to be earmarked for the country\u2019s town halls although no specific amount was mentioned.
Accompanying President Fern\u00e1ndez at the meeting was Dominican Minister of Economy, Planning and Development Juan Tem\u00edstocles Mont\u00e1s and Education Minister Melanio Paredes. <\/P>
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President Fern\u00e1ndez Discusses Cooperation Programs with World Bank Representatives Santo Domingo, 12\/07\/2010 Dominican President, Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, met last Friday with a commission from the Latin American and Caribbean Region, World Bank with whom he discussed the various collaboration programs sponsored by this organization in the Dominican Republic. In a conversation with Ms. Cox, President Fern\u00e1ndez … Continue reading “President Fern\u00e1ndez Discusses Cooperation Programs with World Bank Representatives”<\/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-4412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412"}],"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=4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}