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Montserrat / Economy
We estimate Montserrat's economy to have contracted by 4.2% in 2009, its biggest economic downturn in a decade, as the global financial storm and faltering external demand weighed heavily on the East Caribbean island nation. According to figures from the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), the Montserratian economy grew by a whopping 6.2% in 2008 as agriculture, construction...
2010-03-10Trinidad & Tobago / Economy
Former opposition United National Congress (UNC) leader Basdeo Panday has withheld his support for a move by the new leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar in parliament to file a motion of...
2010-03-09Dominica / Economy
Dominica's economy suffered severely as a result of the global economic headwinds that dominated 2009, as lower tourist visitor numbers, falling foreign direct investment inflows...
2010-03-09Country Risk Rating
Montserrat
We estimate Montserrat's economy to have contracted by 4.2% in 2009, its biggest economic downturn in a decade, as the global financial storm and faltering external demand weighed...
2010-03-10Trinidad & Tobago
Former opposition United National Congress (UNC) leader Basdeo Panday has withheld his support for a move by the new leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar in parliament to file a motion of...
2010-03-09Dominica
Dominica's economy suffered severely as a result of the global economic headwinds that dominated 2009, as lower tourist visitor numbers, falling foreign direct investment inflows...
2010-03-09Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic's business environment continues to perform poorly in our ratings, scoring 42.8 overall, below the Latin American average of 47.2, and is even low by Caribbean...
2010-03-09Dominican Republic
Estimating a real GDP growth rate of 1.9% in 2009, we are forecasting an economic expansion of 3.3% in 2010. We see the Dominican Republic's economic recovery in large part driven...
2010-03-09Trinidad & Tobago
Headline consumer price inflation in Trinidad & Tobago spike in January, rising 1.89% month-on-month (m-o-m), following three consecutive months of negative m-o-m price growth....
2010-03-09Guyana
BMI View: Although a source of relative stability throughout the global financial crisis, lack of competition and low lending ratios imply Guyana's commercial banking sector will...
2010-03-04Puerto Rico
The weak state of Puerto Rico's economy and an ever growing public debt pile are starting to weigh on the commonwealth's long-end yields. A considerable steepening of the yield curve...
2010-03-03Guyana
BMI View: Domestic opposition to government intervention in the economy is becoming the biggest threat to the ruling People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) electoral hopes in...
2010-02-01Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic finds itself at the heart of the international relief effort for Haiti following the devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake on January 12. While a prevention...
2010-01-19Dominican Republic
The passing of the Dominican Republic's new constitution heightens the risk of public unrest over the medium term. Immigrants with foreign parents will constitutionally not be able...
2009-11-04Dominican Republic
We have revised down our social stability rating for the Dominican Republic by another 10 points to 62.5 following July's downgrade as public unrest and violent clashes have been...
2009-08-20
