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Barbados provides regional talking point
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December 10, 2021
PM Gonsalves, former Prime Ministers Kenny Anthony, and PJ Patterson were quickly off the mark advocating following Barbados into a Republican form of...
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Can small offshore centres survive?
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March 27, 2009
The banking crisis of 2008/2009 has already been the focus of a great deal of attention throughout the media, which often assumes full knowledge and u...
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Some effects of moral hazard
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January 30, 2009
As the world’s financial markets continue to limp along, affecting as they do small island economies as our own, many governments are focusing on ho...
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Further thoughts on the credit crunch
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October 31, 2008
History books are likely to remember the financial crisis of 2007/2008 as the ‘sub-prime’ crisis, referring to the turn of events in the U.S Mortg...
Impact of the Credit Crunch
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Impact of the Credit Crunch
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September 26, 2008
A Credit Crunch is a recessionary period during which growth in money or credit has slowed and subsequently causes a drying up of liquidity in an econ...
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From Yaounde Convention to Cotonou Agreement
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September 5, 2008
The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between CARICOM countries and the Dominican Republic (together referred to as CARIFORUM) and the European Uni...
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New service-based economy
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July 31, 2008
The evolution of an economy from one dominated by agriculture and extractive industries (mining) through industrialisation, to one dominated by servic...
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Royal Bank of Scotland
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May 30, 2008
As recently as in the year 2000, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was a solid regional Render, ranked 391 among the world’s banks but today it is ranked...
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Economic growth and development-policy issues
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March 28, 2008
Which is the increase in value of the goods and services produced by an economy? As an area of study, economic growth is generally distinguished from ...
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Medical Tourism “offshore medical college”
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February 29, 2008
What is called Medical Tourism- persons going to countries other than their own for either urgent or elective procedures - is fast becoming a worldwid...
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Mortgage market of the USA
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February 1, 2008
The mortgage market in the United States has been the subject of much debate concerning the adverse effects of the “Subprime” factor. Today’s di...
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The Inevitability of globalization
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November 30, 2007
Globalization is one of the most charged issues of today. Extreme opponents charge it with impoverishing the world’s poor, while fervent supporters ...
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Governance issues
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September 28, 2007
Issues related to governance are more prominent today than they have been at any time in the past, but it is often difficult to define exactly what th...
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The right to development
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August 31, 2007
The process of development is the realization of civil, economic, social, cultural and other human rights enumerated in the Universal Declaration of H...
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Human capital revisited
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July 27, 2007
Human Capital refers to the stock of productive skills and technical knowledge embodied in labour. Many early economic theories refer to it simply as ...
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Equity and economic policy
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June 29, 2007
It is generally accepted in modern-day societies that extreme inequality of income, wealth or opportunity is unfair and that efforts should be made to...
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Business play-time
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May 25, 2007
Many major corporations are recognizing that “play” can be a critical component of a culture that encourages creativity and innovation in fast cha...
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A perspective on the Value-Added Tax
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April 27, 2007
This week ‘View point’ puts the spotlight on the Value-Added tax (VAT) which is being introduced in St. Vincent and the Grenadines with effect fro...
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Education in the new information age
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March 30, 2007
The transition from the industrial age to this new information age has been good news for small developing countries, enabling them to overcome severa...
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Social capital in organisation
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February 23, 2007
Our focus today is on social capital in business and organizations, the trust-based connections between people and networks, and the communities throu...
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Further business trends
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November 24, 2006
Today’s companies and organizations are now moving into situations where they are gradually becoming communities of people. Power and authority are ...
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The language of business
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October 26, 2006
The objective of a business entity is the production of goods and services for which consumers are willing to pay a price. Companies produce those goo...
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Striving for efficiency
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September 22, 2006
Efficiency is considered to be one of the greatest management virtues. Efficient businesses survive while inefficient ones inevitably fail. There are ...
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Doing Business in a global environment
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August 25, 2006
As St. Vincent and the Grenadines strives to diversify its economic base, agriculture will be seen to make a smaller percentage contribution to gross ...
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Corporate Business Trends
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July 28, 2006
In the Corporate world the failure of a business entity does not necessarily equate to calamity. This may not yet be the culture in small island state...
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Corporate Competencies
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June 23, 2006
In times past, industrial competition used to be largely associated with brawn, whereas today it is really down to brain. Intelligence and intangible ...
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Understanding Poverty
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May 26, 2006
The measurement of poverty has been a challenge for analysts and policy makers for many decades. It remained a challenge because not many countries ha...
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Science of management
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April 28, 2006
The science of management was not always as developed as we know it today. Modern management had its early roots at the turn of the twentieth century ...
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From banking to financial services
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February 24, 2006
Not very long ago, when countries started to ‘construct’ National Economic Plans, financial services featured very little if at all. The focus was...
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Focus on the underground economy
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October 28, 2005
This year, the month of October is being featured throughout the OECS as Financial Literacy month, and this week "Viewpoint" has chosen to place the s...
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Equity and economic growth
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September 23, 2005
Just over 30 years ago Sir Arthur Lewis the Caribbean's Nobel laureate in Economics, was moved to remark about the Less Developed Countries (LDCs) of ...
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Cultivating a new business culture
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August 26, 2005
"A few men own capital, and those few avoid labour themselves, but with their capital, hire or buy another few to labour for them. The prudent pennile...
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Moving towards fairer trade
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July 22, 2005
Trade liberalization is being advocated in contemporary development circles as holding the key to assisting low-income countries to boost growth and e...
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The role of investment in SVG’s growth agenda
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June 24, 2005
“Competitive advantage no longer rests on a country’s natural endowments, but on its ability to create a business environment along with supportin...