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Think Tank Opens Doors
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Think Tank Opens Doors

A rising regional policy research organisation has thrown open its doors in Barbados in the midst of concerns that Barbados and its neighbours are at a developmental cross road. Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI), which was started less than three years ago in Kingston, Jamaica, is a public policy think tank seeking to change the way policy and decision making are currently done in the region. Officially opened last evening, it is now oper...

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VOB Regional News - CaPRI Barbados
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VOB Regional News - CaPRI Barbados

A new think tank has been established in the Eastern Caribbean, led by internationally-renowned economist Avinash Persaud. It's called the Caribbean Policy Research Institute - or CAPRI - whose newly established Barbados office comes less than three years after a similar office in Jamaica. Independently funded, they say their mission is to inform public debate with good policy options.
David Ellis reports

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CaPRI Senior Fellow, Avinash Persaud Receives Silver Medal as Public Intellectual on the Financial Crisis in 2009
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CaPRI Senior Fellow, Avinash Persaud Receives Silver Medal as Public Intellectual on the Financial Crisis in 2009

4 January, 2010
CaPRI Senior Fellow, Avinash Persaud Receives Silver Medal as Public Intellectual on the Financial Crisis in 2009.
Professor Avinash Persaud, Senior Fellow at the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI), and head of the institute’s Barbados office was recently named among the world’s top three most important contributors to financial reform.

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Just In: CaPRI to Open Barbados Office & Appoints Senior Fellow
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Just In: CaPRI to Open Barbados Office & Appoints Senior Fellow

In fulfilling its mandate of promoting development in Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean, the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI), has appointed Avinash Persaud, Professor Emeritus of Gresham College, London and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy, Cambridge University, as a CaPRI Senior Fellow.

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Barbados and the Global Credit Rating Agencies - A short note in response to the S&P announcement on the downgrade of Barbados
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Barbados and the Global Credit Rating Agencies - A short note in response to the S&P announcement on the downgrade of Barbados

By: (Prof) Avinash D. Persaud

Should Barbadians shrug off the latest decision by S&P, one of the three main rating agencies, to revise its outlook on Barbados for the second time this year, to negative from stable?