Economic Resilience with An Exchange Rate Peg: The Barbados Experience, 1985-2000

Author/Editor:

Roland Craigwell ; Kevin Greenidge ; Harold Codrington ; Rupert D Worrell

Publication Date:

August 1, 2003

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This paper discusses the institutional arrangements for exchange rate targeting in Barbados and the critical role they played in the policy response to its balance of payments crisis of 1991-92. The framework featured ongoing cooperation between the central bank and the Ministry of Finance, and the use of a forecast model which highlighted the size of fiscal adjustment needed to secure foreign reserves adequate to maintain the exchange rate peg.

Series:

Working Paper No. 2003/168

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

August 1, 2003

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451858280/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA1682003

Pages:

24

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