The disincentives to efforts inherent in group farming have been a continual source of underproduction and disappointment with cooperative farming experiments in Latin America. The paper suggests an intermediate farming structure currently successful in the Dominican Republic. In the framework...

Tourists – overnight visitors – to the Dominican Republic have increased from 560,000 in 1984 to 6.6 million in 2018 – a nearly 12-fold increase in 34 years. Hotel rooms and tourism jobs have increased by similar factors. The eastern tip of the island was home to only a few families in the...