Barbados Government Rebukes IMF
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(Nation News): GOVERNMENT HAS ACCUSED the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of being austerity-driven and of not listening, as the administration sticks to its five-year strategy to keep the Barbados economy on an even keel.
Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler told the SATURDAY SUN yesterday the view by IMF deputy division chief Therese Turner-Jones that Barbados needed to take quick, corrective action in order to turn around the struggling economy was typical of the Fund’s one-size-fits-all prescription.
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