Trinidad and Tobagostatesparty politicsstate lendingNEDCOMicrofinance is commonly known as banking upside down because micro-lending institutions make very small loans available to businesspeople excluded from conventional banks. Microfinance has piqued the interest of political elites in many Global South ...
These data allow for tests of the roles of personal wealth and other personal characteristics in financing small businesses. The Survey of Terms of Bank Lending (STBL) provides detailed information since 1977 on the contract terms on some of the individual loans issued by a sample of banks, ...
However, on closer inspection of the data, this large spike in 1991 consists mainly of two large finance packages from the Inter-American Development Bank, for Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago respectively, rather than a pattern of expanded energy support to SIDS generally. In fact, immediately ...
From the latter half of the 1970s, countries such as Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Barbados as well as Grenada were 'forced' because of their chronic need for 'hard' currency loans to approach the IMF and the World Bank. These loans were accompanied by structural adjustment measures. This ...
From the latter half of the 1970s, countries such as Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Barbados, as well as Grenada were 'forced' because of their chronic need for 'hard' currency loans to approach the IMF and the World Bank. These loans were accompanied by structural adjustment measures. This ...
From the latter half of the 1970s, countries such as Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Barbados as well as Grenada were 'forced' because of their chronic need for 'hard' currency loans to approach the IMF and the World Bank. These loans were accompanied by structural adjustment measures. This ...