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FY 2026 Guyana Country Opinion Survey Report

2026

The Country Opinion Survey in Guyana assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Guyana perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral and bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector,...

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Engines of growth : building knowledge economies in SIDS

Mohan, Preeya; Lindsay, Courtney; Jagessar, Jaymieon; … - 2025

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Guyana : 2025 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Guyana

2025

The 2025 Article IV Consultation highlights that Guyana's economy has grown rapidly over the past two decades, progressing from low-middle-income to high-income status-the only Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative participant to achieve this milestone. Oil production is fast ramping...

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Fit for size: rethinking capacity strengthening in Small Island Developing States : lessons from climate finance support programmes in the Pacific and Caribbean

Wilkinson, Emily; Manley, Marita; Lindsay, Courtney; … - 2025

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Guyana's economic growth and its implications for intra-CARICOM trade and investment, and functional cooperation

Bollers, Elton - 2025

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Much ado about Islam : the political integration of Muslim minorities in Guyana and Suriname

Hirseland, Aline-Sophia - 2024

Differently to large parts of the scholarship assessing the impact of religion on the integration of Muslim minorities in Europe, the case selection employed in the present study allows for controlling relevant sociodemographic variables, namely migration background or rather generation and...

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Bhattacharya, Rina - 2024

Guyana is growing rapidly, and fiscal policy plays a critical role in ensuring that the country’s wealth is managed effectively and equitably. The paper analyzes crucial elements of a comprehensive fiscal policy framework, anchored on a medium-term fiscal framework, that would help in...

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The relative effects of public and private capital on Guyana's economic performance, 1980 to 2018 : a cointegration analysis

Modeste, Nelson C. - 2024

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Sustained cooperation in a public good game : evidence from Guyana

Cartwright, Edward; Singh, Thomas - 2024

Two consistent findings from the experimentally literature on public good games are that cooperation declines over time and cooperation is lower in countries with weak institutions. These findings, however, are primarily based on experiments in Europe, North America and Asia. There is little...

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Guyana : 2023 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; and Staff Report

2023

The 2023 Article IV Consultation highlights that the Guyanese economy continues to experience record growth, supported by the government's modernization plans and unparalleled oil and gas sector expansion. Guyana's oil reserves per capita are one of the highest in the world. Going forward, oil...

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Enhancing trade facilitation in Guyana : the case for improved inter-agency coordination

Stephen, Kim; DaSilva-Glasgow, Dianna - 2023

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Gender-Based Violence Country Profile : Guyana

2023

Guyana faces several challenges, including poverty and high levels of inequality, ranking 114 out of 170 countries in the gender inequality index. Guyana faces significant challenges in addressing gender-based violence (GBV) and supporting women's economic empowerment. The pandemic has only...

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A co-created model for self-determined development objectives in Indigenous communities

Persaud, Girendra; Chhetri, Netra; Scornavacca, Eusebio; … - 2025

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A Systematic Review of the Effects and Symptoms of the Dutch Disease Globally : Lessons for Guyana

Hardyal, Navendradat; Moonsammy, Stephan - 2022

The Dutch Disease is a well-documented phenomenon observed in countries that have experienced a boom in a non-renewable resource such as oil and gas and minerals. The literature on the Dutch Disease dates back to the 1980s and there is empirical evidence on the economic effects on countries all...

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Diversification perspectives of Guyana's agrifood sector

Weber, Regine; Bubbico, Antonio; Morales-Opazo, Cristian - 2022

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Managing Guyana's Oil Wealth: Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy Considerations

Bhattacharya, Rina - 2022

International oil producers have discovered commercially recoverable petroleum reserves of around 11 billion barrels that promise to transform Guyana's agricultural and mining economy into an oil powerhouse, while hopefully helping to diversify the non-oil economy. Oil production presents a...

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Managing Guyana's Oil Wealth : Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy Considerations

Bhattacharya, Rina - 2022

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Trade Policy Review: Guyana 2022

2022

“Trade Policy Reviews" analyse the trade policies and practices of each member of the WTO. The reviews consist of three parts: an independent report by the WTO Secretariat, a report by the government, and the concluding remarks by the Chair of the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Body. The opening...

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Guyana : 2022 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Guyana

2022

Following the pandemic-induced recession in 2020, economic growth recovered in 2021, with non-oil GDP growth reaching 4.6 percent, despite being negatively impacted by floods. Inflation increased markedly since 2021 owing to the floods and supply-side disruptions, as well as continually rising...

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Income inequality in Guyana : class or ethnicity? : new evidence from survey data

Constantine, Collin - 2024

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Income inequality in Guyana : class or ethnicity? : new evidence from survey data

Constantine, Collin - 2022

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FY 2021 Guyana Country Opinion Survey Report

2022

The Country Opinion Survey in Guyana assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Guyana perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the...

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Economic Challenges in Early 21st Century Guyana : Post-Independence Growth and Development

2024

Introduction -- Part I: Political Economy and Growth -- Economic Growth and the Optimal Size of Government in Guyana -- The Impact of Political Instability on Economic Growth: The Case of Guyana Regional Inequality and Development: A Study of the Coastal-Hinterland Dichotomy in Guyana Colonial...

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Guyana : a national trade strategy

2021

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Temporary barriers and local industry defense : where does Guyana stand? : where should it head?

DaSilva-Glasgow, Dianna - 2021

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Navigating transfer pricing risk in the oil and gas sector : essential elements of a policy framework for Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana

McLean, Sheldon; Charles, Don; Rajkumar, Antonio - 2021

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Die drei Guayanas (Surinam, Französisch-Guayana, Guayana) – Bericht zur Hauptexkursion 2019

2020

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An Analysis of the Relative Effectiveness of Monetary and Fiscal Policies on Economic Performance in Five CARICOM Member States : Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago

Indalmanie, Samuel P. - 2020

The major macroeconomic goals are to boost output and employment levels and maintaining price stability. Two mainstream polices tasked with regulating the economy to achieve these multiple goals are monetary and fiscal policies. These policies use different instruments to influence the...

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Perspectives on diversification prospects for the agrifood industry in Guyana

Bubbico, Antonio; Keller, Michael; Morales Opazo, Cristian - 2020

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Sudden change of pedagogy in education driven by COVID-19 : perspectives and evaluation from a developing country

Oyedotun, Temitayo Deborah - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced sudden transformation in many sectors of the global community, turning the world upside down. Everything has been impacted, not excluding the education sector, which has experienced some unforeseen changes in many parts of the world. The sudden transition to...

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Municipal waste management in the era of COVID-19 : Perceptions, practices, and potentials for research in developing countries

Oyedotun, Temitope D. Timothy; Kasim, Oluwasinaayomi Faith - 2020

The novel COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted all facets of society globally. Often overlooked is the potential contamination of the waste disposed by individuals diagnosed with the virus. The proliferation of contaminated waste is expected to increase as cases increase. The pandemic...

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Guyana : housing market and implications for macroprudential policies

Chow, Julian T. S. - 2020

Guyana's residential real estate prices have been rising, particularly in the capital city Georgetown, following the discovery of oil in 2015. In line with the growing demand for housing, commercial banks' housing loans have increased, prompting higher household debt. This paper presents two...

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Guyana : Housing Market and Implications for Macroprudential Policies

Chow, Julian T.S. - 2020

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Resolving ambiguity as a public good : experimental evidence from Guyana

Raeburn, Kaywana; Laszlo, Sonia; Engle-Warnick, Jim - 2023

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Resolving ambiguity as a public good : experimental evidence from Guyana

Raeburn, Kaywana; Engle-Warnick, Jim; Laszlo, Sonia - 2016

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Guyana : Leading Causes of Death During the Last 120 Years

Gampat, Ramesh - 2019

Guyana is one of the poorest countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in terms of level of human development and state of health. Infectious diseases were the leading causes of death until the 1950s, a continuation of a trend from the previous century. From 1911 to the early 1950s, the...

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Guyana : 2019 Article IV consultation : press release, staff report, and statement by the Executive Director for Guyana

2019

This 2019 Article IV Consultation highlights that Guyana's economic growth strengthened in 2018 with broad-based expansion across all major sectors. The medium-term prospects are very favorable as oil production is on schedule to begin in early 2020. Economic growth is projected at 4.4 percent...

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Policy briefs for Barbados, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago

Weekes, Colleen; Bello, Omar - 2019

This set of policy briefs has the objective of profiling disaster risk management (DRM) policies in five selected member States of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee: Barbados, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. The present publication is the second that...

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Estimates and Ethnic Distribution of Guyana's Building Stock

Gampat, Ramesh - 2019

Guyana’s population has been contracting for years now, particularly its Indian component which is still the largest. Indians are concentrated in four regions, where close to 70 percent of them live. Africans are highly concentrated in Regions 4 and 10, where two-thirds of them live. Mixed...

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Institutional support and the challenges facing youth entrepreneurs in developing countries : a Guyana case study

Danns, Donna E.; Danns, George K. - 2022

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Foreign direct investment and economic growth in Guyana : the role of financial sector development

Deonanan, Regan; Conrad, Daren - 2022

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Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean: Guyana (Edition 2022)

2022

This dataset contains tax revenue collected by Guyana. It provides detailed tax revenues by sector (Supranational, Federal or Central Government, State or Lander Government, Local Government, and Social Security Funds) and by specific tax, such as capital gains, profits and income, property,...

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Guyana's REDD+ agreement with Norway : perceptions of and impacts on indigenous communities

Laing, Tim - 2018

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Guyana’s REDD+ Agreement with Norway : Perceptions of and Impacts on Indigenous Communities

Laing, Timothy - 2018

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Guyana : 2018 Article IV consultation : press release and staff report

2018

Economic growth slowed down, but became more broad-based. In 2017, real GDP growth was 2.1 percent, with the non-mining GDP rebounding from its contraction in 2016. The external balance turned negative due to weaker than expected export growth and higher oil prices. Inflation remains relatively...

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Non-tariff barriers to trade : what does the experience of Guyanese exporters of food and agriculture products reveal?

DaSilva-Glasgow, Dianna; Hosein, Roger - 2018

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Bai Shan Lin : The Chinese Logger with Multiple Interests in Guyana

Bulkan, Janette - 2017

Bai Shan Lin (BSL), a partially state-owned Chinese logging company began operating in 2007 in Guyana, a small but resource-rich South American country nestled between Venezuela and Suriname on the Caribbean coast to the north of Brazil. The victory of the ‘A Partnership for National Unity'...

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Harnessing Oil Wealth in Guyana Via a Sovereign Wealth Fund : Look Before You Leap

Ali, Asim - 2017

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News from Guyana : 15 Columns on Forest-Related News Published in the Quarterly CFA Newsletter, March 2011 to March 2015

Bulkan, Janette - 2017

The 15 columns document and analyze the principal forestry-related processes and events in Guyana during the final three-years in office (2011-2015) of the ethnic East Indian-dominated government that ruled uninterruptedly for 22 years (1992-2015). The evidence and consequences for the forests,...

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Guyana : 2017 Article IV consultation : press release; staff report; and statement by the Executive Director for Guyana

2017

This 2017 Article IV Consultation highlights the expansion of Guyana's real economic activity by 3.3 percent in 2016. Subdued agricultural commodity prices, bad weather, and delays in public investment weighed down activity, while large increases in gold output helped support growth. Consumer...

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Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean: Guyana (Edition 2021)

2021

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Efficiency-adjusted public capital and economic growth in Guyana : a cointegration analysis

Modeste, Nelson C. - 2021

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Economist Intelligence Unit <London> - London : EIU - Nachgewiesen 1996 - 2021

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Earnings Inequality within and across Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Groups in Four Latin American Countries

Cunningham, Wendy V. - 2016

Latin American countries are generally characterized as displaying high income and earnings inequality overall along with high inequality by gender, race, and ethnicity. However, the latter phenomenon is not a major contributor to the former phenomenon. Using household survey data from four...

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Earnings Inequality Within And Across Gender, Racial, And Ethnic Groups In Four Latin American Countries

Cunningham, Wendy V. - 2008

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Illegal Logging by Asian-Owned Enterprises in Guyana, South America

Bulkan, Janette - 2016

This briefing paper is organised with the following sections:1. FDI arrangements for investment, milling, training, proportion of foreign staff2. Unregistered and unapproved changes in ownership structure of the Asian companies/trading of logging concessions3. Illegal renting and managerial...

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