Although they recently have shown some weakness in part, due to the effects of the slowdown in overseas economies, they have remained at historical high levels. In this situation, business fixed investment has turned to an uptrend gradually.
The transformation of the Barbadian economy, over the past five decades, from a sugar-exporting economy to one that has become a byword internationally for high quality tourism and international business and financial services, is the result of the many initiatives of private Barbadians and friends of Barbados, who have uncovered the economy’s potential for transforming itself, and have invested accordingly, in building the required infrastructure, and in equipping themselves with appropriate skills.