#BTColumn – The CARICOM economy (Part 2)
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May 2, 2021
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Luke 13:6-9
Last week, a regular reader of my column, in noting the relatively weak average 2019 GDP per capita CARICOM performance when compared with selected countries, passionately shared this observation: CARICOM is a large bureaucratic financial black hole lacking in a smart partnership philosophy and is in urgent need of governance restructuring.
What else can we learn from these comparisons?
Singapore’s success, as one of the world’s most prosperous nations, is due to the strong leadership style by Lee Kwan Yew when he took over the reins as Prime Minister in 1959. His government’s Connectivity, Openness, Reliability and Enterprise (CORE) economic development strategy was expertly implemented.