The strength of the country’s performance is also evident in the healthy state of the external accounts where the country recorded an overall balance of payments surplus in 2000 – the eighth such consecutive surplus. This has also led to a build up in the country’s gross foreign reserves which amounted to $ million or around 5.2 months of prospective imports.
BIS Review 41/2001  1  The state of play Over the past seven years real GDP has grown on average at just under 4 per cent per annum and preliminary indications are that growth will continue apace during 2001.