View metadata
| dc.title | Going for Growth: Pilot Benchmarking in the Caribbean |
| dc.contributor.author | Mercer-Blackman, Valerie |
| dc.contributor.author | Melgarejo, Karl Alexander |
| dc.contributor.author | Salazni, Mariana |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Country Department Caribbean Group |
| dc.coverage | Trinidad and Tobago |
| dc.coverage | Suriname |
| dc.coverage | Jamaica |
| dc.coverage | Guyana |
| dc.coverage | Bahamas |
| dc.coverage | Barbados |
| dc.coverage | The Caribbean |
| dc.date.available | 2015-07-10T00:00:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 2015-07-10T00:00:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | Sustainable economic growth has reemerged as a subject of Caribbean policydiscussions, given the region's relatively lackluster performance in recent decades. However, most policy discussions still focus on the region's fiscal and macroeconomic constraints instead of on the analysis of underlying productivity drivers. This is due in part to the persistence of fiscal and debt crises across the region since the 1980s, and inadequate data available to perform basic productivity analyses. This brief adapts a benchmarking framework originally developed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development to identify constraints to growth and help policymakers prioritize actions to address them. It summarizes the original technical background work and presents the results of initial exercises, using this framework, for The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. |
| dc.format.extent | 29 |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.18235/0000059 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Going-for-Growth-Pilot-Benchmarking-in-the-Caribbean.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.medium | Adobe PDF |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Economic Policy |
| dc.subject | Economic Development |
| dc.subject.jelcode | B41 - Economic Methodology |
| dc.subject.jelcode | O10 - Economic Development: General |
| dc.subject.jelcode | O20 - Development Planning and Policy: General |
| dc.subject.jelcode | O43 - Institutions and Growth |
| dc.subject.keywords | comparison;small economies;economic growth;benchmark |
| dc.type | Policy Briefs |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | Policy Briefs |
| idb.operation | TT-P1103 |