Introducing 

Prezi AI.

Your new presentation assistant.

Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.

Loading content…
Loading…
Transcript
  • The Dominican has always been influenced by an outside body

Quick Facts

Social Problems

Understanding Wealth

Disparity:

Dominican Republic

  • 57000 living with AIDS
  • 1.88 Physicians/1000 people
  • High risk of contracting infectious disease
  • 22.22 deaths/Live births
  • 13.3% unemployment rate

Quick Facts Continued

  • GDP Overall-$84.94 billion (ranked 114 worldwide)
  • Labor force- 4.7 million (48% of overall population)
  • Labor Force Occupation:

7.3 % Agriculture

22.3% Industry

63.1 % Tourism

  • Unemployment Rate- 13.3%
  • Inflation Rate-8.6%

Social Problems Continued

  • Crime - 157 prisoners/100'000 people
  • Prostitution
  • Human trafficking

Dominican Republic

  • Near Haiti in Central America

Economic Disparity

  • 50.5% of pop. live below poverty line
  • Population of 9,956,648
  • Literacy Rate: 87%
  • Services are 64.8% of GDP
  • GDP per capita- $9300 (ranked 114’th worldwide)
  • Richest 10% of the country are responsible for 40% of the countries GDP.
  • While the poorest 10% are responsible for 1.4% of the countries GDP.
  • 70 % of the overall population make below the average GDP per capita.
  • 50.5% of the population live below the poverty line

Understanding Dominican Politics

Spanish Colonize

the island

Sell my country

Cedes the colony

Hatian Attack

Marine Overthrow

Trujillo Molina

From Chaos, Order

Outside Interests

I'll take your sugar

Fresh Face

Hipólito Mejía

Handshake with the devil

Leonel Fernández

1795

1870

1924

1916

2000

1930

- 1961

1996

Reasons for Economic Disparity

So Why is This Bad?

  • Outside investors play big role

#1: Lack of proper education among the Dominican Population

#2: 75% of Dominican exports are U.S. based

#3: 63.1 % of Labor force occupation is tourism

#4: Huge population compromising of people below the poverty line (42.2%)

#5: Lack of social programs for poor and uneducated population.

  • Short-Term boom

Works Cited

  • "CIA - The World Factbook." Welcome to the CIA Web Site — Central Intelligence Agency. Web. 06 Feb. 2012. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/dr.html>.
  • "Dominican Republic." Info Please - All the Knowledge You Need. Web. 6 Feb. 2012. <http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107475.html?pageno=1>.
  • "Dominican Republic | Data." Data | The World Bank. Web. 06 Feb. 2012. <http://data.worldbank.org/country/dominican-republic>.
  • "Dominican Republic." U.S. Department of State. Web. 06 Feb. 2012. <http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35639.htm>.
  • Organization of American States. Www.oas.org. June 1996. Web. 6 Feb. 2012. <http://www.oas.org/atip/country%20specific/TIP%20DR%20IOM%20REPORT.pdf>.

Works Cited Continued

  • "Prostitution in the Dominican Republic." Dominican Republic News & Travel Information Service. Web. 06 Feb. 2012. <http://dr1.com/articles/prostitution.shtml>.
  • United Nationa. Division of Social Policy and Development Department of Economic and Social Affairs Program on the Family. Un.org. By Godfrey St. Bernard. United Nations, 23 May 2003. Web. 6 Feb. 2012. <http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/family/Publications/mtstbernard.pdf>.
  • United Nations. Drugs and Crime and the Latin America and the Caribbean Region of the World Bank. Worldbank,org. Mar. 2007. Web. 6 Feb. 2012. <http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTLACREGTOPGENDER/Resources/Crimeandviolenceinthecaribbeanfullreport.pdf>.
Learn more about creating dynamic, engaging presentations with Prezi