Challenges and Opportunities: The IMF and the Caribbean: Address by Shigemitsu Sugisaki, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund At the High Level Seminar on the Caribbean St. Peter, Barbados, February 8, 2000
Let me begin today by saying a little about the outlook for the Caribbean economies. I will then address some of the policy challenges that the region must confront to sustain and further improve on this performance. Finally, I want to talk about some of the steps which the Fund has been takingand will be takingto strengthen our relationship with our members here in the Caribbean.