Barbados: Selected Issues
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Summary:
This Selected Issues paper discusses data issues and postcrisis growth in Barbados. An analysis of the data on Barbados shows very clear inconsistencies among the various measures of economic development. Although real growth seems to have evolved broadly in line with the rest of the Caribbean, nominal growth and inflation developments suggest that Barbados was hit much harder by the global financial crisis. At the same time, these data may also be misleading. Nominal GDP seems to have inadequate coverage, and inflation is much higher in Barbados than in similar economies in the region.
Series:
Country Report No. 2016/280
Subject:
Consumer price indexes Economic sectors Financial crises Global financial crisis of 2008-2009 Inflation Prices Production Total factor productivity Tourism
English
Publication Date:
August 26, 2016
ISBN/ISSN:
9781475530360/1934-7685
Stock No:
1BRBEA2016002
Pages:
34
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