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Business Intelligence
Data Limitations – What to Do When the Data You Need Isn’t There
At Antilles Economics we often encounter data limitations both when doing work for clients as well as when conducting our own independent analysis. Not all of these limitations are within our power to fix. But some are. Here’s a selection of common limitations and how we’ve fixed them. There are times ...
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Business Intelligence
Impact of Legislative Change on Demand for Medicines in Barbados
Aim of the Project In early 2011, the Government of Barbados introduced a dispensing fee for prescriptions filled at private pharmacies. This fee, the equivalent of 30% of the cost of the medicine, was expected to raise US$6 million for the Government and reduce the budget of the Barbados Drug ...
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AE News
Our Work in the Tourism Industry in Barbados
The tourism industry in Barbados faces many challenges: declining visitor expenditure, low tourist arrivals, changing visitor preferences, climate change, tighter financial budgets and increased competition from other destinations. We use our economics and data analytics skills to reduce the threats and maximise the opportunities inherent in each of these challenges. Sample ...
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Strategy Design
No One Invests in Companies Anymore
I’m sure that you have heard entrepreneurs in the Caribbean complain that they have a very difficult time sourcing financing. In fact, a World Bank survey for Barbados found that 41% of small businesses stated that access to finance was a major obstacle for their business, compared to 30% of ...
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Business Intelligence
Solving Problems With Insights
I believe that often to solve a problem we need new insights. But what are insights? I’ve looked up this word in a number of different sources and this is what I came up with: Insights are the hidden nature of things; the cause and effect relationship that is not ...
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Interviews
Interview: Electric Car Rentals
Introducing Electric Car Rentals Today’s post interviews Kieshelle Mcknight-Cummins from Electric Car Rentals, a new car rental company in Barbados with an ambitious mission: to be the regional leader in green transportation by providing 100% eco-friendly vehicles for rent to tourists and residents. The company only offers electric or hybrid vehicles ...
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Strategy Design
Surviving the Recession: 5 Steps to Improve Business Decision-Making
I got the idea to write this post when I was writing the Recession and Falling Reserves 2013Q3 review for Barbados. I wondered if all of this doom and gloom about the economy was leading to worse business decision-making. So I did some research and I realised that within many ...
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Business Intelligence
Nowcasting with Google, by Mahalia Jackman
Nowcasting has become widely popular in economics. In its most basic form, nowcasting can be summarised as ‘predicting the present and sometimes recent past’. At first this may seem a bit strange. Why would economists want to forecast the present, or even the past? Can you even forecast the past? ...
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The Economy
Barbados Economic Recovery: Framing the Discussion
Last week on a popular radio show in Barbados, two leading economists and a former head of a large company in Barbados discussed and took calls from the public on the Barbados economic recovery. I found the discussion extremely interesting and I commend all of the panelists for their insights. At ...
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