Ewart S Williams: Stimulating domestic capital in the energy sector Address by Mr Ewart S Williams, Governor of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, at the Trinidad and Tobago energy conference, Port-of-Spain, 8 February 2011.
*  *  *  It’s a bit of a paradox but the facts are that the energy sector makes a major contribution to GDP, to the public finances and to exports, (but scarcely any direct contribution to employment) and depends very little on domestic financing. Table I illustrates the contribution of the energy sector to the various economic aggregates.