The report provides an overview of the economic performance for 2017 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 2018. Data were collected from a review of reports...
McLean, Sheldon
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Alleyne, Dillon
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Hendrickson, Michael
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Pantin, Machel
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Skerrette, Nyasha
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Preliminary overview of the economies of the Caribbean 2017–2018
Although the growth performance has been mixed in the Caribbean year, on averaged the economies posted an economic growth of 0.7 per cent in 2016. The goods producers achieved -3.1 per cent growth, due to weak commodity prices. While the service producers achieved 2.1 growth. Despite the anemic g...
World economic growth was somewhat disappointing in 2015 due to a series of negative shockswhich affected the performance of a number of emerging and advanced economies. Among these were the continuing decline in commodity prices, periods of financial market volatility, lower capital flowsand sub...
Alleyne, Dillon
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Mc Lean, Sheldon
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Hendrickson, Michael
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Pantin, Machel
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Skerrette, Nyasha
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Doorgadeen, Roberta
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Preliminary overview of the economies of the Caribbean 2015-2016
This overview examines the economic performance of economies of the Caribbean in 2018 and comprises four chapters. The first chapter provides a comparative analysis across Caribbean economies of the main macroeconomic variables, namely GDP growth, monetary indicators, as well as fiscal and extern...
McLean, Sheldon
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Alleyne, Dillon
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Hendrickson, Michael
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Oyolola, Maharouf
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Pantin, Machel
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Skerrette, Nyasha
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Tokuda, Hidenobu
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Preliminary overview of the economies of the Caribbean 2018–2019: Economic restructuring and fiscal consolidation as a platform to increase growth
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 ...