An academic is supporting the homegrown Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation programme but believes meeting the growth targets could be a tall order.
Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies, Dr Justin Robinson, said Barbados needed the stamp of the International Monetary Fund to have the credibility to rebuild the economy.
He said the programme entered into last month sent a signal to “the key players” that Barbados was serious about solving its economic problems.
“We need that monitoring and that discipline,” the acting chief executive officer of the Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business told a meeting of the Rotary Club of Barbados South Wednesday at Accra Hotel. (HH)
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