Export Processing in the Dominican Republic: Ownership, Linkages and Transfer of Technology

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Willmore
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Transfer Of Technology ◽  
Export Processing

Questioning Globalization: Gender and Export Processing in the Dominican Republic

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 11-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen I. Safa
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Improve Working ◽  
Male Breadwinner ◽  
Heads Of Household ◽  
Women's Labor Force Participation ◽  
Export Processing

This article questions the benefits of globalization for low-income women through an analysis of 1997 data on women export-processing workers in the Dominican Republic. Export processing has contributed to an increase in women’s labor-force participation and their greater economic autonomy. But the percentage of men employed in export processing has also increased and efforts to improve working conditions through collective bargaining or other means are still weak. The increasing percentage of female heads of household, who rely heavily on extended kin for financial and emotional support, provides additional evidence of the erosion of the male-breadwinner model.

Export Processing Zones in the Dominican Republic: Implications for the United States

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
William A. Lindeke
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Export Processing Zones ◽  
Internment Camps ◽  
San Pedro ◽  
Processing Zone ◽  
Second World ◽  
Export Processing

I entered the high, barbed-fenced area under a flat-arched sign reading: “ZONA FRANCA.” The neatly laid-out streets and cheap, warehouse buildings reminded me of internment camps from the Second World War. Peering past the shotgun-toting guard into the high shell of a building, I saw row upon row of women, sitting at identical tables with identical postures, surrounded by identical piles of cloth stacked beside identical sewing machines. I had entered the brave new world of the Export Processing Zone in San Pedro de Macoris in the Dominican Republic.

A fossil Aspergillus from Eocene Dominican amber

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (01) ◽  
pp. 141-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard M. Thomas ◽  
George O. Poinar
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
First Report ◽  
Dominican Amber ◽  
Eocene Amber

A sporulating Aspergillus is described from a piece of Eocene amber originating from the Dominican Republic. The Aspergillus most closely resembles a form of the white spored phase of Aspergillus janus Raper and Thom. This is the first report of a fossil species of Aspergillus.

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