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• Guyana and the wider world

  By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | 0 Comments

  
  

  How is the crisis being transmitted to Caricom?
  In the space of a couple of months and with breathtaking speed, what began as the bursting of the private housing market bubble in the United States, has …

• Guyana and the wider world

  By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, December 28, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  How will future economic growth be affected?
  V, U, or L-shaped growth curve
  Following last week’s column, I shall discuss this week the impact of the financial crisis and credit crunch on the prospects for economic growth …

• Guyana and the wider world

  By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, December 21, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  From financial crisis to real economic crisis

  Two issues need to be considered at this stage of the analysis of the financial crisis and credit crunch. First, to consider to what extent these financial occurrences have …

• Guyana and the wider world

  By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, December 14, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  Assessing the G20 Summit responses: Weak diagnosis equals weak solutiaons
  Overriding considerations
  Except by pure chance, ultimately the effectiveness of the actions proposed by the G20 Summit held on November 15, 2008 would depend on the accuracy …

• Guyana and the wider world

  By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, December 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  Global response to the global crisis
  Within hours of the US authorities realizing that their private housing bubble had burst and how severe the financial crisis and credit crunch had become, reverberations began to be felt …

• Guyana and the Wider World

  By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, November 30, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  An abrupt about face: From the Troubled Assets Relief Program to partial nationalization
   
  From the inception the US Treasury authorities have made it clear that the primary objective of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) is to …

• Guyana and the wider world

  By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, November 23, 2008 | 2 Comments

  
  

  At the heart of the crisis response: the US
  Troubled Assets Relief Program
  The United States is clearly at the epicentre of the global financial crisis and credit crunch. The scale of the havoc and damage already …

• Guyana and the Wider World

  By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, November 16, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  At the epicentre of the crisis − a bursting bubble
  In last week’s column I put forward the thesis that, the enormity of the global financial crisis and its associated credit cr-unch could be gauged from …

• Guyana and the wider world

  By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, November 9, 2008 | 2 Comments

  
  

  How is a credit crunch different from a financial crisis?
  The enormity of the challenges posed by the present financial crisis and credit crunch is starkly revealed in its two most basic aspects, firstly, the enormous …

• Guyana and the wider world

  By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, November 2, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  The financial crisis and credit crunch
  As promised last week, in this week’s Sunday Stabroek column I shall start a fairly extended discussion of the staggering financial crisis and worsening credit crunch facing the global economy, …

• Guyana and the wider world

  By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, October 26, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  EPA, sign or else: Exploding the myth of a partnership of equals

  Predictably, the opening act of the increasingly sordid saga of the African Caribbean Pacific group (ACP) - European Commission (EC) - EPAs has come …

• Guyana and the wider world

  By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, October 19, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  More on the Guyana consultation on the EPA
  While it would be fair to say that the Guyana government held a fairly successful National Consultation on the CARIFORUM-EC, EPA, its aftermath has been much more …

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