Dukharan commends 2021/2022 fiscal budget but suggests debt reprofiling
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Despite global technological advances and industrial developments over the past three decades, Bahamians have only seen $503 more per person in annual income, according to a regional economist.
Marla Dukharan, a Caribbean economist and formerly Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC) top regional economics expert, while addressing a recent joint seminar with Citadel Consultants and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), noted that this nation has averaged only 1.1 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth over the two decades prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Marla Dukharan.
“This is the pace at which our economies are growing throughout this region. This is not unusual. It is the norm in the region,” said Dukharan.
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