TY - BOOK ID - 84547775 TI - Barbados : Staff Report for the 2002 Article IV Consultation. AU - International Monetary Fund. AU - International Monetary Fund PY - 2003 SN - 1462371671 1452730393 1280898801 9786613740113 1452704481 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Banks and Banking KW - Exports and Imports KW - Labor KW - Macroeconomics KW - Public Finance KW - Debt KW - Debt Management KW - Sovereign Debt KW - Public Enterprises KW - Public-Private Enterprises KW - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise: General KW - International Lending and Debt Problems KW - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Civil service & public sector KW - Public ownership KW - nationalization KW - International economics KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Public debt KW - Public sector KW - Public enterprises KW - External debt KW - Wage adjustments KW - Economic sectors KW - Debts, Public KW - Finance, Public KW - Government business enterprises KW - Debts, External KW - Wages KW - Barbados UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84547775 AB - This 2002 Article IV Consultation highlights that eight consecutive years of growth in Barbados ended in 2001 as real GDP contracted by 2¾ percent, owing mainly to the adverse impact on tourism of the global economic slowdown and the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as continuing declines in agriculture and manufacturing output. To lessen the impact of the September 11 attacks, the authorities implemented a national emergency program in the fourth quarter of 2001. Broad money grew by 5½ percent in 2001, reflecting capital inflows and an increase in international reserves. ER -