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| Barbados Eyes Significantly Lower Fiscal Deficit |
by Phillip Morton, Investors Offshore.com
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Barbados’ Minister of Economic Affairs, Empowerment, Innovation, Trade,
Industry and Commerce, David Estwick, announced in a meeting with business leaders
that the government is to introduce a programme to reign in the state deficit
to within 2.1% of the island’s gross domestic product (GDP) to ensure the territory’s future
financial vitality.
Explaining the challenges the territory faces due to the impact of the global economic crisis,
Estwick disclosed that in 2009 real GDP contracted by 5.3%, and unemployment
increased from 8.1% in 2008, to just over 10% in 2009. This decline in the economy
led to a widening in the fiscal deficit from 6.4% of GDP in 2008, to 8.4% in 2009.
Against this background, Estwick outlined government's proposals to tackle
the deficit: "We have crafted a strategy that provides for the targeted
policy intervention necessary to address and moderate the fiscal issues confronting
Barbados over the next five years.”
“This will be done through better management of our revenues and expenditures.
The programme will address debt management and improving the management of the
Public Sector Investment Programme in general.”
This initiative, he said, will seek to, among other things, mitigate the number of unemployed, in part by encouraging entrepeneurialism. According to the minister, the programme will also review the territory's attractiveness to investors with a view to enhancing its appeal. He explained that the government would continue efforts to ensure Barbados continues to offer a beneficial legal and tax environment, couple with a skilled labour market, to ensure it
continues to be an internationally competitive jurisdiction for investors, and supports the economy so that it can sustain a growth
rate of 3%, or over.
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