Si alguien conoce la forma de comunicarse con Néstor E. Rodríguez, dígale que estoy profundamente agradecido por su generosa reseña de A Tale of Two Cities. Santo Domingo and New York After 1950, investigación de Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof.
En particular buscaba información sobre la fiebre dominicana en la década de 1980 por conseguir una visa a Estados Unidos. La Wikipedia comenta que durante los ochentas hubo un gran periodo liberal, pero dejó a un lado el colapso económico y de corrupción en República Dominicana.
De esta manera, pude encontrar un reporte sumario que realizó el Fondo Monetario Internacional al respecto:
En particular buscaba información sobre la fiebre dominicana en la década de 1980 por conseguir una visa a Estados Unidos. La Wikipedia comenta que durante los ochentas hubo un gran periodo liberal, pero dejó a un lado el colapso económico y de corrupción en República Dominicana.
En las convincentes páginas finales, Hoffnung-Garskof demuestra con estadísticas y testimonios orales la desgarradora historia del movimiento de personas entre los puntos de la geografía cultural dominicana que representan los barrios de Cristo Rey y Washington Heights. El libro es categórico en que la emigración de índole política que caracterizó el desplazamiento de dominicanos a Nueva York en los años sesenta y setenta devino en la década del ochenta en un éxodo eminentemente económico. Así ha sido, en efecto, como consecuencia directa de una administración inoperante liderada por el entonces presidente Salvador Jorge Blanco, y de las draconianas reformas impuestas por el Fondo Monetario Internacional a República Dominicana para remediar la debacle fiscal. [Fuente Entre Cristo Rey y Washington Heights]
De esta manera, pude encontrar un reporte sumario que realizó el Fondo Monetario Internacional al respecto:
This Occasional Paper is a compilation of papers that are linked by a common theme --stabilization, structural reform, and economic growth in the Dominican Republic. The papers summarize the authorities' stabilization efforts, how these efforts were subsequently reinforced by certain key structural reforms, and other related developments that help explain the remarkable performance of the Dominican Republic's economy in the 1990s during which the country achieved one of the highest output growth rates in Latin America, combined with low inflation, and a much improved external debt profile. The performance is all the more striking when contrasted with the severe imbalances of the previous decade --one of widening external current account and public sector deficits, accelerating inflation, and declining growth.
As a result of these imbalances, by the end of the 1980s, pressures on the balance of payments and prices had reached unsustainable levels. The government suspended certain external debt-service payments, giving rise to large external payments arrears. Conditions deteriorated to such an extent that a drastic reorientation of policies was urgently needed. [...]
During the 1980s, in order to protect domestic industries, the authorities often resorted to trade-restricting measures. This resulted in a highly protected domestic industry, which was ill-prepared to enter an increasingly competitive world market. Recognizing that domestic firms risked being unable to keep pace with international conglomerates, the authorities have embarked on a trade reform program. [...]
The authorities often resorted to external arrears as a means of financing the external current account deficits of the 1980s. Although rescheduling agreements were reached with the international banking community and with the Paris Club of official creditors in the mid-1980s, they met with limited success until the authorities embarked on their stabilization program of the early 1990s. [...]
The deepening fiscal imbalances of the 1980s, largely financed domestically, but also with external arrears, led to rapidly accelerating inflation. The economic system was at risk of collapse and it needed a rapid and substantial fiscal adjustment. In just one year, the consolidated public sector balance turned from a deficit of more than 3 percent of GDP in 1990 to near balance in the following year. [...] [Fuente: The Dominican Republic Stabilization, Reform, and Growth, Fondo Monetario Internacional (IMF, por sus siglas en inglés).]