Caribbean Region Quarterly Bulletin: Volume 6: Issue 1: March 2017
Peer Reviewed
Date issued
March 2017
Subject
Fiscal Consolidation;
Citizen Security and Crime Prevention;
Unemployment Rate;
Tourism;
Commodity Export;
GDP Growth;
Access to Finance;
Oil Price;
Fiscal Deficit;
Remittance;
Tax Rate;
Commercial Bank
JEL code
E01 - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth • Environmental Accounts;
E31 - Price Level • Inflation • Deflation;
E32 - Business Fluctuations • Cycles;
L25 - Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope;
L26 - Entrepreneurship
Country
Trinidad and Tobago;
Suriname;
Bahamas;
Barbados;
Guyana;
Jamaica
Category
Magazines, Journals and Newsletters
This Caribbean Region Quarterly Bulletin explores constraints to private sector development in the Caribbean. With economic growth weak and dependent on only a few sectors -either tourism or commodity exports- authorities in all countries aim at diversifying the economy and boosting private sector development. While the private sector in each country faces specific issues, most share challenges resulting from red tape, complicated and tedious processes and weak environments for doing business. As usual, the Quarterly Bulletin covers the economic developments in The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago, and routinely includes a section on the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).
