This survey posits that improving global prospects especially in the United States and Europe will mean opportunities for positive growth in the Caribbean due to increasing exports and renewed inflows from foregin direct investment and remittances. It points out that the response of the Caribbean...
The survey provides an overview of the economic performance for 2014 of the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago plus the eight member states of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) and the outlook for 2015. Data were collected from a review of reports ...
Alleyne, Dillon
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Hendrickson, Michael
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Mc Lean, Sheldon
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Milligan, Michael
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Pantin, Machel
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Skerrette, Nyasha
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Economic Survey of the Caribbean 2015: Balancing economic recovery and high debt in the Caribbean
The Economic Survey of the Caribbean 2018 analyses the performance of the Caribbean subregion to the global economy. It provides a comparative analysis of global economic growth, commodity price performance, Caribbean growth performance, and unemployment. This is then followed by a subsection on ...
Low commodity prices in the Caribbean region have negatively impacted the economic growth of commodity exporting economies. Growth among the service producers averaged 1.6 per cent in 2015 but is projected at 2.5 per cent by year end in 2016. The region also struggles with high unemployment of 15...
Alleyne, Dillon
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Hendrickson, Michael
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Mc Lean, Sheldon
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Doorgadeen, Roberta
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Pantin, Machel
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Skerrette, Nyasha
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Economic Survey of the Caribbean 2016. Economic recovery in the Caribbean: the dichotomy of the goods and services economies
This survey examines the economic performance of economies of the Caribbean in 2018 and comprises six chapters. The first chapter gives an overview of global, regional and subregional economic performance as well as unemployment in the Caribbean. The second provides an analysis of governments in ...