Guyana Business Journal & Caribbean Policy Consortium hold webinar on new study: “Strategic Considerations for Local Content Requirements in Guyana’s Oil Sector” by Dr. Jerry Haar Significant Research Findings: Guyana’s…
The Guyana Business Journal (GBJ) and the Caribbean Policy Consortium (CPC) have teamed up to provide Guyanese in the diaspora with a series of webinars that will cover Guyana’s LOCAL…
I come from the nigger yard of yesterday leaping from the oppessors’ hate and the scorn of myself I come to the world with scars upon my soul wounds on…
Vishal Mangalwandi, above, speaks eloquently to the manner in which corruption retards societal development. The corruption perceptions index ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector…
The GBJ believes that the success of the no confidence motion and its aftermath coupled with the emerging oil economy has once again provided the key stakeholders with the opportunity to act boldly to seize a “grand bargain” that would see a genuine Government of National Unity preside over the emerging oil economy for the next six years. The broad outlines of the marriage of the economic, security, and environmental bonafides of the three key ethnic groups and its potential impact on Guyana’s social cohesion are clear. The GBJ believes that movement of this type in the political sector, now, would provide the impetus for robust economic growth in 2019.
In this week’s installment from the GBJ we address the question of revenues from the impending oil production. In an earlier post we noted that the main direct effect of the…
A small English-speaking nation located on the northern coast of the continent of South America, Guyana is said to be on the cusp of wealth based on the discovery of…
Evidently, these discoveries will provide Guyana with much needed and welcomed additional financial revenues for growth-supportive investments and social expenditure, as well as financial buffers against adverse economic shocks. However, oil discoveries tend to make non-oil sectors less competitive via the appreciation of the real exchange rate (Dutch disease) and can induce macroeconomic volatility (van der Ploeg and Poelhekke, 2009). How does a young woman in Ozama St. North Ruimveldt win this game? GBJ will take up aspects of this question in next week’s installment.
Introduction The term diaspora is used to refer to the ethnic minority groups, residing and acting in host countries but maintaining strong sentimental and material links with their countries- of- origin…