Services sector holds 83% of Dominican employment
In the Dominican Republic, 83% of its employment belongs to the service sector, a segment of the economy that also represents 59.7% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country.
Vilma Arbaje, Vice Minister of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, and MSMEs (MICM), released the information by participating in a Webinar organized by the vice ministry that he directs from the MICM, in conjunction with the Coalition of Services of the Dominican Republic and the Latin American Association of Service Exporters.
During the event, Deputy Minister Arbaje said that the stakeholders involved have the challenge of continuing to create synergies, to consolidate a harmonized methodology that continues to facilitate access and increase the quality of the available statistics.
She valued the way in which the service sector has evolved in recent years, reaching 83% of the employed population, which is why “from the MICM we work together with the actors of the sector in the elaboration of public policies that result in the benefit of the same”.
Johan Mulder, chief of commerce of the Economic Commission for Latin America considered that the Webinar is a space to learn about good practices among the actors involved.
For Costa Rica, Rigoberto Torres Mora, from the Central Bank of that country, participated, who highlighted the importance of measurements for data generation, while Liliam Andrea Guio Navas, coordinator of the National Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia, spoke about the design on the design of the quarterly sample of Foreign Trade in Services in your country.
She said that in Colombia they are working on a probability sampling survey and that by 2022 they plan to include a question for all economic units, which will allow them to know the universe of all companies and the type of transaction they carry out.
Joaquín Piña, a representative of the Chamber of Commerce of Santiago de Chile and the Latin American Association of Exporters of Services, explained that since 1987, through a decree of the Ministry of Finance, in his country it was possible to classify the export services, provided to clients abroad, and that the public-private committee on export of services operates in that nation.