{"id":499144,"date":"2026-02-02T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/daniel-toribio-warns-that-the-regional-advantage-is-evaporating-we-grew-less-and-food-went-up-more\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:03:00","slug":"daniel-toribio-warns-that-the-regional-advantage-is-evaporating-we-grew-less-and-food-went-up-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/economy\/daniel-toribio-warns-that-the-regional-advantage-is-evaporating-we-grew-less-and-food-went-up-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Toribio warns that the regional advantage is evaporating: We grew less and food went up more"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo.- Economist Daniel Toribio warned<\/strong> that the Dominican Republic closed 2025 with a worrying turn compared to Central America: it went from leading the regional growth to lagging behind, while food inflation <\/strong>continued to strongly pressure low-income households.\n\nToribio pointed out that, according to the comparative performance, in 2025 several countries in the region grew close to 4% or more, while the Dominican economy slowed to 2.1%, a slowdown that is reflected in employment, sales and expectations.\n\nIn terms of prices, he recalled that although overall inflation closed at 4.95% within the target range, the figure that weighs on daily life is the composition: food and non-alcoholic beverages rose 8.19%, hitting hardest households that allocate a larger part of their income to buying food.\n\n\n
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\u201cYou can say \u2018we are within\u2019 the meta range, but the grocery store adjusts first and the real salary loses strength. The goal does not console when the dish becomes more expensive,\u201d said Toribio.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Key points of the analysis:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • \u2022 2025 Growth: 2.1% in the Dominican Republic, below the performance of several Central American countries<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u2022 2025 Inflation: 4.95% in the Dominican Republic, without the relief seen in other economies with low or negative inflation<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u2022 Food: 8.19% in 2025, with impact concentrated in lower-income households<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u2022 Vulnerability: high labor informality amplifies the blow, because it limits wage adjustments and reduces savings capacity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Call for concrete measures<\/h2>\n\n\nToribio argued that public discussion should shift from celebrating averages to managing the factors that make life more expensive. He proposed specific actions:<\/em>\n\n\n
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    • \u2022 More competition and effective market supervision<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • \u2022 Reduction of logistics costs<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • \u2022 Clear rules and fiscalization in distribution chains<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • \u2022 Focus on productivity to sustain real wages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      “Low growth and expensive food push poverty. If the structure that makes life more expensive is not corrected, the country will continue to lose the advantage it built since 1996 without gaining what matters: living with less pressure,” he concluded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Santo Domingo.- Economist Daniel Toribio warned that the Dominican Republic closed 2025 with a worrying turn compared to Central America: it went from leading the regional growth to lagging behind, while food inflation continued to strongly pressure low-income households. Toribio pointed out that, according to the comparative performance, in 2025 several countries in the region […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29122,611,40231],"class_list":["post-499144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-economy","tag-daniel-toribio","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25QI","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Ana Luisa Peguero","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ana-peguero-2-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Economy"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}