DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES: POLITICS, THE STATE AND INSTITUTIONS IN DOMINICAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE XXI CENTURY

This article summarizes the principal findings of the studies on institutions and development as they refer to the Dominican case study, in the context of the Project Institutions and Development in Latin America, which is directed by Alejandro Portes of the University of Princeton. The project analyses the national experiences of development in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and the Dominican Republic, with regard to the contribution to national development in four specific institutional domains: the Stock Exchange, postal service, health and civil aviation. In the Dominican case, besides civil aviation and the postal service as in the other Latin American case studies, the public health system and not a specific organization in the system as well as the internal taxation system and not the stock exchange were studied.