It regulates the National System for Development and Public Investment, controls the statistics programs, evaluates the impact of economic actions, establishes the international cooperation politics, among other roles.

[2] Since 1965, development and economic planning politics in the Dominican Republic were in charge of the Technical Secretariat of the Presidency (Spanish: Secretariado Técnico de la Presidencia).

[4] This process was the result of a legal transformation of the Dominican public administration, in order to strengthen the country's economic development.

It adopted its current name, Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development (Ministerio de Economía, Planificación y Desarrollo), after the 2010 Constitutional reform and the subsequent Decree no.

[7] These are: Its role is to collect, review, elaborate and publish the national statistics, including censuses.