I was hoping to catch a glimpse of DJ Khaled earlier this year while he was recording at Albany in The Bahamas, as more and more international artistes do. And why not? Apart from Jamaica, it’s hard to beat The Bahamas’ beauty and vibe, not to mention the possible tax…

Google ‘oligarch’ and the results reflect the prevailing narrative that they are largely Russian/Soviet. But oily-garchies are everywhere, because the Paradox of Plenty predisposes resource-rich countries to subpar socio-economic outcomes, mainly because their extractive institutions promote corruption and kleptocracy (oligarchy’s jealous lover). …

The region’s stopover tourist arrival recovery after the Global Financial Crisis was mixed — Jamaica and Dominican Republic recovered in 2009, Aruba and St. Lucia in 2010, Cayman and Belize in 2011, Curaçao in 2012, Anguilla in 2013, Montserrat and Grenada in 2014, Barbados and the Bahamas in 2015, Antigua…

As we all struggle to cope with the (policy failures) of the pandemic, which with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine became a polycrisis, and which has now morphed into what is being dubbed a ‘permacrisis’, it is urgent that we deliberately address the most fundamental and corrosive problem facing mankind today…

The Caribbean is home to people from across the planet — from our first inhabitants centuries (maybe millennia?) ago, to global digital nomads and expats now — we are a microcosm of humanity. And in this vein, most if not all of the world’s major developments manifest in one way…

When advising policymakers and multilateral development partners, I am often asked what I see as the top challenges facing our region, which of them are in our control, and how we can resolve them sustainably. The following are my remarks delivered at the World Bank’s forum “Building Resilience Through Sustainable…

by Marla Dukharan As always, just as the world’s elite gather in Davos, Switzerland — the world’s second largest financial secrecy jurisdiction by the way — Oxfam published its annual exposé on the increasingly acute global inequality and poverty problem. Kudos to Oxfam for tirelessly collecting and compiling this important…

by Marla Dukharan (originally published November 8, 2022) Almost on a daily basis I am referred to as ‘boomer’ by my children, both of whom are teenagers with the now typical preference for tech-enabled life, which was probably inevitable but no doubt accelerated by the pandemic. And for dinosaurs like…

by Marla Dukharan (originally published September 25, 2022) The recent “Spotlight on the Economy” highlighted many important economic developments and data, and I thank and congratulate the Gov’t of T&T for this effort. But this exercise also revealed inconsistencies and unnecessary untruths. “Our credit rating is improving. Our revenue is…