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The Virgin Islands - post Commission of Inquiry
By Dickson C. Igwe
Like Hurricanes Irma and Maria, when the talk was what would the Virgin Islands look like after the devastating storms: it appears the country has learned very little from the two devastating hurricanes.
The Commission of Inquiry: The silver lining
By Dickson C. Igwe
Now, international companies and investors are the platforms upon which the British Virgin Islands economy sits. Financial Services have kept this country alive through the many months of pandemic and the collapse in Caribbean tourism.
The inflation beast returns - but don't panic just yet
By Dickson C. Igwe
Now the challenge with inflation is that it increases the cost of living. Inflation when uncontrolled can be very damaging. And if economics is primarily about human behavior, then uncontrolled inflation damages consumer and business confidence which are the platforms upon which economics rests.
Joe Biden & social spending
By Dickson C. Igwe
Social Democracy means a bottom-up economy, with public spending directed at alleviating the burdens of the poor; public policy that drives greater social equality; and public investment in infrastructure that aids small businesses, including farming and small manufacturers.
The Social Community
By Dickson C. Igwe
For positive change in the era of COVID 19, a Commission of Inquiry that is throwing a fog over the future, and a terrifying new culture of crime, social cohesiveness, and social responsibility—Social Democracy—is the answer.
Rising public anger is never good politics
By Dickson C. Igwe
Politicians who ignore specific sections of the population to focus on channeling public resources to a select group are usually in for a rude awakening.
The ruling bank
Dickson C. Igwe
Banking rests upon public confidence. And central banks are the platform that sits beneath the world economy. Without the Central Bank, there would be no modern economy as we know it. Central banks drive the financial world, and finance is the software of the global economy.
Crime in the BVI
By Dickson C. Igwe
The Virgin Islands is threatened by a seemingly irreversible criminal culture. Is there hope that it will be reversed?
Rising drug, gun, and gang crime, threatens to destroy the Virgin Islands community.
Parties, ideology & Virgin Islands politics
By Dickson C. Igwe
Having an ideology- social, economic, and political- is imperative for effective politics and government. On a specific Facebook thread in April 2021, there were very interesting assertions on Virgin Islands politics.
The small business tool of governance
By Dickson C. Igwe
Only a strong social democracy; not a trickledown capitalist model, will deliver for the BVI.
OK. It was small business and the working man that kept the BVI economy alive Post IRMA and will do the same Post COVID 19.
Small business and strong consumer spending will drive economic growth and prosperity when the pandemic finally ends.
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