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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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, October 12, 2008 | 0 Comments
EPA: Moral Hazard and the Betrayal of the Public’s Interest
Perspective
Put in a proper analytical frame two crucial considerations have emerged out of my column last …
By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 0 Comments
The EPA: Technicality subverts democratic discourses
I have already pointed out that the text of the Cariforum-EC; Partnership Agree-ment (EPA) is very long. The main text, …
By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 0 Comments
Guyana: Trade-in-goods only
In last week’s column I had indicated that I would for the next couple of weeks be evaluating the Guyana Consultation on the …
By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, September 21, 2008 | 0 Comments
The Guyana National Consultation on the Cariforum-EC, Economic Partnership Agreement
As a participant and presenter I might have been biased, but I believe that by any …
By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, September 14, 2008 | 1 Comment
Near-term prospects for the Guyana economy: The internal environment
US financial intervention
The recent unprecedented and spectacular intervention of the US Federal Government into that country’s financial …
By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, September 7, 2008 | 0 Comments
Near-term prospects for the Guyana economy: A tale of ‘falling prices’
(Continued from last week)
Recap
Several persons have expressed consternation to me over the Bureau of Statistic’s …
By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, August 31, 2008 | 0 Comments
Near-term prospects for the Guyana economy: A tale of ‘falling prices’
The surging increases in food and fuel prices have produced considerable economic uncertainty worldwide.
This has …
By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, August 24, 2008 | 0 Comments
World economic uncertainty: Cause or consequence
This analysis of the recent rapid increases in global food and fuel prices along with the strong surge in bio-fuels …
By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, August 17, 2008 | 0 Comments
Necessary but dangerous: Non-tariff barriers in action in the EPA
Last week I had indicated that this week’s column would illustrate the way in which non-tariff …
