ECONOMIC EDUCATION
Since 1987, the Foundation has encouraged and promoted, through the written press and television programs, knowledge of economics and public policies that can contribute to the development and progress of nations.
Since its inception, it has developed a vast economic education program aimed at raising the level of understanding of the basic principles of economics and good public policy. Prior to the beginning of the Foundation's economic education activities, economic issues in the Dominican Republic were analyzed in exclusive spaces, such as universities and academia. Its massive diffusion through the press and television began with the Foundation's irruption into the field of disseminating the ideas, principles and benefits of the social market economy system, economic openness and competition.
Press sections such as Sábado Económico, published weekly in the Listín Diario, Mercado y Libertad, published Monday through Friday in the evening newspaper Ultima Hora, Economía para Todos, published in the Sunday section of the Listín Diario and La Gráfica del Día, published Monday through Friday in the Económicas section of the Listín Diario, allowed Dominicans to have access to a series of economic topics that in the past were handled exclusively in the closed circles of the Dominican academy. The topics addressed are explained in simple and understandable terms for everyone.
These sections migrated to other newspapers in the form of columns, such as those published by Andrés Dauhajre Jr. in Listín Diario, in the weekly Clave, and since July 2009, the page published by Andrés Dauhajre Jr. in El Caribe.
Many of the articles and works published in the press by the Foundation gave and continue to give rise to intense economic debates, contributing in some cases to pave the way for the set of structural reforms that have been implemented by the different governments of the Dominican Republic since the early 90s.
At the same time, the Foundation ventured into television with the same objective: to increase understanding of what works and what does not work in economics; which policies lead to success and which inexorably lead to failure. Starting in 1988, the Foundation began broadcasting two television programs, Triálogo, a weekly one-hour program with the participation of Aníbal de Castro, José Israel Cuello and Andrés Dauhajre Jr., initially broadcast on Channel 13 and later on Teleantillas, Channel 2; and Mercado y Libertad, a 3-minute economic commentary by Andrés Dauhajre Jr. on Channel 13's Noticiario.
Triálogo's participants changed over time, with intellectuals and communicators such as José Del Castillo, Pedro Delgado Malagón, Wilfredo Alemany, Leila Mejía, economist Jaime Aristy Escuder and political scientist Flavio Darío Espinal joining the program. Currently, its members are economist Jaqueline Mora and Andrés Dauhajre Jr. Triálogo is broadcast on Sundays at 9:00 a.m. on Teleantillas, Channel 2.
From 2004 to 2012, the Foundation broadcast Toque de Queda with Triálogo, a television program from Monday to Friday on Teleradio América (Channel 45) and Cinevisión (Channel 19), with the participation of Wilfredo Alemany, Jaime Aristy Escuder and Andrés Dauhajre Jr.
From September 2011 through 2017, the Foundation produced a daily 8-minute commentary segment on El Show del Mediodía which airs at 1:00 p.m. on Color Visión, Channel 9, under the name El Análisis de Andy y Wilfredo.
The Foundation has sponsored conferences, seminars and study projects by national and international experts to contribute to the knowledge and dissemination of the problems and reforms necessary for a better functioning of the Dominican economy, such as the two times it invited Chilean economist José Piñera to the country to explain the benefits of the pension reform based on the principle of individual capitalization.
In addition to the dissemination through the press and television, the Foundation has published several books that compile the press publications and some of the research and studies carried out. A considerable number of these publications were donated to the main libraries, including those of the country's main universities.