Bani. The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD) closed the 15th diploma course “Economic training for communicators”, held in the province of Peravia.
The training sessions were attended by 33 information professionals based in the southern part of the country, as part of the activities of its institutional social responsibility program, Aula Central, for economic and financial education.
During his participation in the course, BCRD Governor Héctor Valdez Albizu took the opportunity to highlight that, with this type of training activities, the BCRD shows its interest in contributing to a better understanding, both for communication professionals and the general population, of the main economic and financial issues.
In his address to journalists from the Peravia province, Valdez Albizu highlighted the contributions made by the BCRD through the Aula Central program, among which the results obtained from the National Survey of Inclusion and Financial Education stand out, a study that is part of the program developed by the Working Group for the National Strategy for Economic and Financial Education (Eneef).
The governor said that these results showed that there was an increase in the holding of financial products in all regions of the country, “especially in the Eastern region, which rose from 42% in 2019 to 51% in 2023; and in the Southern region, which increased from 43% to 50%” for the same period.
He also indicated that throughout the country, “the percentage of adults with at least one financial product, whether savings or credit, increased from 51% in 2019 to 55% in 2023. In other words, my friends, almost 500,000 Dominicans were incorporated into the financial system, which represents significant progress in terms of financial inclusion.”
