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After two tumultuous years, 2023 remains characterized by headwinds facing countries across the world. Just as the pandemic’s effects began to dissipate in 2021, a new series of shocks emerged to test Caribbean economies’ fragile recoveries and resilience in 2022, linked in large part to residual i…

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For more than a year, the Caribbean economics team at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has focused on the potential implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for lives and livelihoods across the region. In this podcast episode, the Caribbean economics team discuss their latest Caribbean Quarte…
#Caribbean #PrivateSector #Businesses #Firms #FinancialAcess #TheBahamas #Barbados #Guyana #Jamaica #TrinidadandTobagoOur latest issue of the Caribbean Economics Quarterly, ( https://bit.ly/3S2946d )Finance for Firms: Options for Improving Access and Inclusion highlights new research from the IDB’s…
Our latest issue of the Caribbean Quarterly Economic Bulletin highlights new IDB research suggesting that many Latin American and Caribbean countries lag behind most advanced economies in digital and telecommunications infrastructure. Closing these gaps could yield dividends in productivity, employ…
Countries have endured over a year of extreme uncertainty due to the COVID-19 crisis, and economies in the Caribbean have suffered more than most. With the increasing availability of vaccines and prospects for a resumption of international travel, we can begin to imagine what a post-COVID tourism r…
#pandemic #caribbeaneconomy #infrastructure The Pandemic has produced the deepest economic shock on record for most countries in the Caribbean region, and the pace and degree to which countries recover will depend crucially on policy choices and actions of governments in the near term. The surge in…
Governments in the Caribbean region have been relatively successful in flattening the infection curve of the Coronavirus in their countries. Geographical isolation is a contributing factor, but decisive and determined government action has been effective in reducing community transmission.As these …
Latin American and Caribbean countries are among the most dependent in the world on the tourism sector. A recent publication from Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) economist's Henry Mooney and María Alejandra Zegarra: “Extreme Outlier: The Pandemic’s Unprecedented Shock to Tourism in Latin Amer…
Financial development, access and inclusion are a critical piece of the puzzle for economic growth and development. Our economists have examined the country-specific barriers restricting financial sector development in Jamaica, Barbados and Guyana, and identified where reforms can be made in these …
In COVID-19 times, governments have a responsibility to save lives but this goes hand in hand with the responsibility to save livelihoods. Locking down parts of our economies is necessary so that the human capital stock can be kept healthy and economies can have a solid footing on which to rebound.…
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