## Trinidad and Tobago: Selected Issues

_IMF Staff Country Reports, January 5, 2005_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: January 5, 2005
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451837636.002

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### Overview
- 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 reviews the evolution of monetary and exchange rate policies, and presents comments on the effectiveness of monetary and exchange rate policy.

### Analytical scope and major themes
- Energy sector analysis, including the Natural gas sector and Oil.
- Labor market developments and Employment issues, including employment generation.
- Monetary policy framework and implementation, including repo rate and rate considerations.
- Exchange rate policy and the evolution of monetary and exchange rate policies.
- Institutional setting and economic structure relevant for monetary and exchange rate policy.
- Financial markets and Currency markets.
- Public sector elements referenced: government, State agency, procurement regime, sugar company.

### Subjects and keywords (as provided)
- Subjects: 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

### Publication notes (as provided on the page)
- Publication date: January 5, 2005
- Pages: 44
- Volume: 2005
- Issue: 006
- Series: Country Report No. 2005/006
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451837636.002
- Stock No: 1TTOEA2005002
- ISBN: 9781451837636
- ISSN: 1934-7685

*International Monetary Fund. "Trinidad and Tobago: Selected Issues", IMF Staff Country Reports 2005, 006 (2005).*

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