Time is certainly not something we have in plentiful supply, given the immense economic policy challenges that countries like ours have ahead of them on their way out of the crisis. 8  BIS central bankers’ speeches
Barbados is a very open economy and because of the structure of our economy, we are more sensitive to the economic performance of the rest of the world. Since tourist travel is spent out of discretionary income, Barbados is very dependent on the economic performance of its source markets.