The January 1st, 1995, General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which entered into force in March 1999, is intended to bring about complete liberalization of international trade in all services, the largest and fastest growing component of such trade. This includes the financial services...

The outbreak of the Russian-Ukraine military conflict has sent chills down the spines of policy makers around the world. In this paper we offer an account of the unfolding military intervention in Ukraine and its concomitant global economic ramifications. By assessing the events that have led up...

Chapter 1: The Venezuelan Migration Crisis: Evolution and Prospects -- Chapter 2: Venezuelan Migrants: A Comparative Look at T&T and Other Latin American and Caribbean Countries -- Chapter 3: Labour Market Impact of Immigration -- Chapter 4: Trade Impact of Immigration -- Chapter 5: Fiscal...

In every country there is a hidden economy operating alongside the formal economy. The published national statistics record only the formal economy. These statistics indicate that the construction industry is an important source of both wealth creation and employment despite the fact that they...

During the 1970s the Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) economy experienced an oil boom because of increases in the level and production of crude oil and in the price each barrel of crude oil fetched on the international market. In the late 1990s to the present, the T&T economy has benefited from another...

Trinidad and Tobago is a small open oil- and gas-based economy that has experienced the effects of boom and bust and the associated fluctuations in income and employment. This paper focuses on the behaviour of the construction sector and its relationship to income and employment over the last...