Economist: Wrong measures

Mar 25, 2013

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Claiming to be bemused by the 2013 Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure, economist Ryan Straughn says the Government is not willing to take advice and has failed to take the necessary measures to take Barbados on a growth path. Pointing to what he predicts will be a historic decline in foreign reserves in the first quarter, the president of the Barbados Economic Society, Ryan Straughn, said that judging by the recent positions taken in the Estimates, it appeared to him that Government did not seem to fully understand what the problem was and was struggling to take the critical measures.

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