IMF Staff Country Reports

Trinidad and Tobago: Selected Issues

January 5, 2005

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International Monetary Fund. "Trinidad and Tobago: Selected Issues", IMF Staff Country Reports 2005, 006 (2005), accessed 12/23/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451837636.002

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the energy sector and labor market developments in Trinidad and Tobago. It discusses monetary and exchange rate policy and describes the institutional setting and economic structure within which monetary and exchange rate policy is conducted. The framework under which monetary policy is formulated and implemented is outlined. The paper also reviews the evolution of monetary and exchange rate policies, and presents some comments on the effectiveness of monetary and exchange rate policy.

Subject: Commodities, Currency markets, Economic sectors, Employment, Energy sector, Financial markets, Labor, Natural gas sector, Oil

Keywords: Caribbean, CR, crude oil, Currency markets, Employment, employment generation, Energy sector, Global, government, government transfer, ISCR, Natural gas sector, Oil, procurement regime, rate, repo rate, State agency, sugar company