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The Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (Spanish: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social (IESS) ), is an autonomous entity that is part of the social security system of Ecuador and is responsible for implementing the mandatory universal insurance, according to the Constitution of the Republic, in force since 2008.
For an alternate area figure of 48,730 km 2 (18,810 sq mi), calling code 809 and Internet TLD: [ 4] The Dominican Republic[ a] is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it ...
Banco Intercontinental (BANINTER; fell in 2003) Bancrédito (fell in 2003) Banco Mercantil (fell in 2003) Republic Bank (local operations bought by Banco BHD in 2007) Banco Altas Cumbres (local operations bought by Scotiabank in 2008) Banco Peravia; Asociación Peravia (disestablished in 2014)
The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic ( Spanish: Banco Central de la República Dominicana, BCRD) was established by the Monetary and Banking Law of 1947 as the central bank of the Dominican Republic, responsible for regulating the country's monetary and banking system. The Bank's headquarters is in Santo Domingo, and its current governor ...
See the ISO 3166-3 standard for former country codes. British Virgin Islands – See Virgin Islands (British) . Burma – See Myanmar . Cape Verde – See Cabo Verde . Caribbean Netherlands – See Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba . China, The Republic of – See Taiwan (Province of China) . Democratic People's Republic of Korea – See Korea ...
The power sector in the Dominican Republic has traditionally been, and still is, a bottleneck to the country's economic growth. A prolonged electricity crisis and ineffective remedial measures have led to a vicious cycle of regular blackouts, high operating costs of the distribution companies, large losses including electricity theft through illegal connections, high retail tariffs to cover ...
The National Palace is the president's official workplace, the center of the administration, and a prominent symbol of the office.. Since independence in 1844, the Dominican Republic has counted 54 people in the presidential office, whether constitutional, provisional, or interim, divided into 66 periods of government.
Dominican Republic–United States relations. Dominican Republic–United States relations are bilateral relations between the Dominican Republic and the United States of America . There are around 200,000 Americans expats in the Dominican Republic, and a little over 2 million Dominicans live in the United States.