Trinidad & Tobago

The development of capital markets in nascent frontier economies is a slow process. At the heart of it, market transactions require a degree of trust, which prevents adoption from taking root quickly. Regulations need to be transparent, concise and well understood, while tax structures have to promote risk-taking and entrepreneurship. Meeting...

Among the most important tasks for Latin America and the Caribbean is to achieve greater growth rates, and a fundamental part of this is investing in infrastructure. The most viable way to accomplish this investment is a significant increase in the number of public-private partnerships (PPPs), and this can only be happen if corruption is...

A sluggish and largely non-diversified economy, coupled with difficulties collecting taxes, has burdened T&T for the last few years. The declines of both hydrocarbon production and prices have severely reduced tax revenues from the energy sector. Receipts from petroleum fell from over TT$20bn ($2.9bn) in 2014 to less than TT$1bn ($148.3m)...