Reproduced with permission, the full text of Dr. Delisle Worrell – former Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados – July 2019 newsletter: The one question which always surfaces in response to my lecture “The time has come to permanently retire all our Caribbean currencies” (search for this title on Youtube) is about national sovereignty.…
Read More DeLisle Worrell: Sovereignty and the US DollarReproduced with permission, the full text of Dr. Delisle Worrell – former Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados – June 2019 newsletter: The Time Has Come to Permanently Retire All Our Caribbean Currencies Caribbean currencies served a crucial purpose when they were first introduced, but they have now become a nuisance in today’s digitised…
Read More DeLisle Worrell: The Time Has Come to Permanently Retire All Our Caribbean CurrenciesFull text of Dr. Delisle Worrell – former Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados – December 2018 newsletter: The Threat of Barbados Dollar Devaluation Remains Prime Minister Mottley’s unprecedented achievement in securing financial support from the IMF, the Interamerican Development Bank and the Caribbean Development Bank, has averted an imminent threat of devaluation. However,…
Read More DeLisle Worrell: The Threat of Barbados Dollar Devaluation RemainsThe IMF just released their projections for Latin America and the Caribbean earlier today. Here’s what you need to know as it relates to the Caribbean (the full report is available here):
Read More IMF Economic Projections for the CaribbeanThe objective of today’s post is to locate, explore and compare/contrast historical data re: Public debt as a percentage of GDP for several Caribbean countries. First, we have to find the data: The Google query “debt to gdp imf” brings us – ironically – to the IMF (Barbadians take note). In particular, the query leads us…
Read More Barbados Public Debt as a Percentage of GDP 1980 to 2012