Sunday, October 6, 2013

Dr. Clive Thomas, Stabroek News, Aug. 2008-Sept. 2013



September 8, 2013, Stabroek News, Money laundering and offshore financial centres, by Dr. Clive Thomas,
September 1, 2013, Stabroek News, The origins of money laundering, by Clive Thomas,

August 25, 2013, Stabroek News, Guyana and Caricom's money laundering situation: Main methods, by Clive Thomas,
August 18, 2013, Stabroek News, The money laundering situation in Guyana: What gives money laundering traction?, by Clive Thomas,
August 11, 2013, Stabroek News, Guyana and money laundering: What is money laundering?, by Clive Thomas,
August 4, 2013, Stabroek News, The management of the public investment programmes, by Clive Thomas,

July 28, 2013, Stabroek News, Amaila: Troubling dimensions of a troubled public project, by Clive Thomas,
July 21, 2013, Stabroek News, GPL and the Amaila Falls Hydropower Purchase Agreement, by Clive Thomas,
July 14, 2013, Stabroek News, Anatomy of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project, by Clive Thomas,
July 7, 2013, Stabroek News, Anatomy of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project, by Clive Thomas,

June 30, 2013, Stabroek News, The anatomy of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (The project finance model) Part 4, by Clive Thomas,
June 23, 2013, Stabroek News, The anatomy of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project: Financing-Part 3, by Clive Thomas,
June 16, 2013, Stabroek News, Anatomy of the Amaila Falls Hydro Power Project ‒ Geo-technical dimensions, by Clive Thomas,
June 9, 2013, Stabroek News, Anatomy of the Amaila Falls Hydro Project, by Clive Thomas,
June 2, 2013, Stabroek News, Infrastructure investment projects and Guyana’s global competitiveness, by Clive Thomas,

May 26, 2013, Stabroek News, What has money laundering to do with public projects?, by Clive Thomas,
May 19, 2013, Stabroek News, The poverty of public investment management, by Clive Thomas,
May 12, 2013, Stabroek News, Further reflections on the Marriott Hotel project and the presidential spectrum giveaways, by Clive Thomas,
May 5, 2013, Stabroek News, The presidential spectrum giveaway and opportunistic rogue investing, by Clive Thomas,

April 28, 2013, Stabroek News, Is the Marriott Hotel an opportunistic rogue public investment?, by Clive Thomas,
April 21, 2013, Stabroek News, Is there a PPP/C government public investment strategy?, by Clive Thomas,
April 14, 2013, Stabroek News, Guyana Government spending is not ‘manna from heaven’, by Clive Thomas,
April 7, 2013, Stabroek News, The Path to Guyana’s Troubled Public Projects, by Clive Thomas, by Clive Thomas,

March 31, 2013, Stabroek News, The tragedy of Government projects: Public resources treated as private properties, by Clive Thomas,
March 24, 2013, Stabroek News, Uncertainty and risk: Guyana’s troubled projects, by Clive Thomas,
March 17, 2013, Stabroek News, Disputed public projects: Basic tools for effective public scrutiny of public spending, by Clive Thomas,
March 10, 2013, Stabroek News, Public spending without public scrutiny: A sure recipe for government inefficiency, by Clive Thomas,
March 3, 2013, Stabroek News, Noise and nonsense in Guyana’s government investment debate, by Clive Thomas,

February 24, 2013, Stabroek News, The Delta effect and Guyana’s sovereign indebtedness since 2006, by Clive Thomas,
February 17, 2013, Stabroek News, Guyana’s public indebtedness since 2006, by Clive Thomas,
February 10, 2013, Stabroek News, Guyana’s public indebtedness since 2006, by Clive Thomas,
February 3, 2013, Stabroek News, Guyana’s public indebtedness since 2006, by Clive Thomas,

January 27, 2013, Stabroek News, Guyana’s debt crisis: A view of the 'worst of times', by Clive Thomas,
January 13, 2013, Stabroek News, Global financial meltdown and Caricom's public indebtedness, by Clive Thomas,
January 6, 2013, Stabroek News, As the global debt crisis continues, how is debt burden arrived at?, by Clive Thomas,

December 30, 2012, Stabroek News, The worst of times: Guyana and the Third World debt crisis, by Clive Thomas,
December 23, 2012, Stabroek News, Guyana: Sugar reform, by Clive Thomas,
December 8, 2012, Stabroek News, Dynamic considerations that should drive sugar reform, by Clive Thomas,
December 2, 2012, Stabroek News, Despite the rallying cries, GuySuCo falters, by Clive Thomas,

November 25, 2012, Stabroek News, GuySuCo's rallying cry: Maintain, privatize and mechanize, by Clive Thomas,
November 18, 2012, Stabroek News, GuySuCo: Spending more to produce less sugar,
November 11, 2012, Stabroek News, GuySuCo and the burden of outside leadership,
November 4, 2012, Stabroek News, National Assembly Update, 2010: 'GuySuCo — robust, strong and firm-footed',

October 28, 2012, Stabroek News, What does GuySuCo's spending on its inputs reveal?,
October 21, 2012, Stabroek News, What the Performance Indicators Reveal,
October 14, 2012, Stabroek News, Guyana’s Sugar: The Elusive Search for Economies of Scale,
October 7, 2012, Stabroek News, The Fall of "King Sugar",

September 30, 2012, Stabroek News, Sugar: The poor performance continues,
September 23, 2012, Stabroek News, Another deception in the making: Halting the flow of 'conscience money' to sugar,
September 16, 2012, Stabroek News, GuySuCo: Throwing good money after bad EU conundrum,
September 9, 2012, Stabroek News, GuySuCo: Death by a thousand cuts,
September 2, 2012, Stabroek News, The bitter saga of Guyana’s sugar industry continues,

August 26, 2012, Stabroek News, How Caricom's sloth averted disaster,
August 19, 2012, Stabroek News, Conclusion: The political economy of the National Budget, 2012,
August 12, 2012, Stabroek News, Concluding challenges and threats to economic stability,
August 5, 2012, Stabroek News, Crime sectors: Challenges and threats to economic stability,

July 29, 2012, Stabroek News, Challenges and threats to economic stability,
July 22, 2012, Stabroek News, Challenges and threats to economic stability, by Clive Thomas,
July 8, 2012, Stabroek News, Challenges and threats to economic stability Part 2,
July 1, 2012, Stabroek News, Challenges and threats to economic stability,

June 24, 2012, Stabroek News, Macroeconomic performance and slippage in public debt,
June 17, 2012, Stabroek News, ‘Accounting’ for slippages in the government debt to GDP ratio,
June 10, 2012, Stabroek News, Accounting for the slippage in the government debt to GDP ratio Part I,
June 3, 2012, Stabroek News, Agony in the time of debt,

May 27, 2012, Stabroek News, Budget 2012: Debt stress and distress Valley of debt,
May 20, 2012, Stabroek News, Beware: The shadow of the valley of Guyana’s public debt,
May 13, 2012, Stabroek News, The Budget and the secular decline of public sector financial management,
May 6, 2012, Stabroek News, Government spending does not come out of thin air,

April 29, 2012, Stabroek News, Public sector: Too big to succeed!,
April 22, 2012, Stabroek News, Beyond the Budget noise,
April 15, 2012, Stabroek News, Budget Office: Beyond trust in official economic data,
April 8, 2012, Stabroek News, A National Assembly Budget Office is needed to restore trust in official economic data,
April 1, 2012, Stabroek News, Evaluating the National Budget 2012,

March 25, 2012, Stabroek News, Tax Reform 11: Closing the debate for now,
March 18, 2012, Stabroek News, Tax Reform 10. Guyana: The inherent limits of traditional tax reform goals,
March 11, 2012, Stabroek News, Tax Reform 9: The Traditional (Standard) Goals of Taxation,
March 4, 2012, Stabroek News, Tax Reform Part 8: Tax or budgetary fairness and equity,

February 26, 2012, Stabroek News, Tax reform 7: Fairness and the tax regime,
February 19, 2012, Stabroek News, Tax Reform 6: Building blocks for redesigning Guyana’s tax regime,
February 12, 2012, Stabroek News, Tax Reform 5: The nuts and bolts of its design,
February 5, 2012, Stabroek News, Tax Reform 4: The taxes we do not pay,

January 29, 2012, Stabroek News, Tax reform 3: The taxes we pay,
January 22, 2012, Stabroek News, Tax Reform 2: Blindsided by foolishness and foolhardiness,
January 15, 2012, Stabroek News, The politics and economics of tax reform,
January 8, 2012, Stabroek News, Tackling the new epicentre of the global crisis,
January 1, 2012, Stabroek News, Looking back into the future: Another view of the global crisis,

December 25, 2011, Stabroek News, The global crisis today: Real or manufactured uncertainty,
December 11, 2011, Stabroek News, Global crisis: Transmission channels to Guyana,
December 4, 2011, Stabroek News, Where does the global crisis stand today?,

November 27, 2011, Stabroek News, Suffer the poor and powerless, by Clive Thomas,
November 20, 2011, Stabroek News, LCDS and MOU: ‘Much ado about nothing’,
November 13, 2011, Stabroek News, Trust or double-dealing: The Guyana-Norway MOU,
November 6, 2011, Stabroek News, The LCDS and MOU Exposed,

October 30, 2011, Stabroek News, More on the official misuse and abuse of economic statistics,
October 23, 2011, Stabroek News, Official Misuse and Abuse of Guyana’s Economic Statistics part 1,
October 16, 2011, Stabroek News, The Future of Sugar in Guyana: Part 2,
October 9, 2011, Stabroek News, The future of sugar in Guyana,
October 2, 2011, Stabroek News, GuySuCo: Caught in a cul-de-sac Contradiction,

September 25, 2011, Stabroek News, Unraveling GuySuCo's economic illogic,
September 18, 2011, Stabroek News, Making GuySuCo look 'good',
September 11, 2011, Stabroek News, Halt the 'business as usual' at GuySuCo,

August 28, 2011, Stabroek News, 'Prags' galore!,
August 21, 2011, Stabroek News, Privatize, mechanize: Rallying cries of GuySuCo reform Introduction
August 14, 2011, Stabroek News, Boondoggle: The Skeldon Sugar Modernization Project,
August 7, 2011, Stabroek News, Skeldon sugar modernization: Far too long in the making,

July 31, 2011, Stabroek News, Stopping the disastrous rot at GuySuCo,
July 24, 2011, Stabroek News, GuySuCo: Performance indicators IV,
July 17, 2011, Stabroek News, GuySuCo's performance indicators III,
July 10, 2011, Stabroek News, GuySuCo's performance indicators II,
July 3, 2011, Stabroek News, GuySuCo's performance indicators I,

June 26, 2011, Stabroek News, Doomed from the start: GuySuCo's 'outside leadership',
June 19, 2011, Stabroek News, Guyana sugar: How do we measure stagnation and decline?,

May 15, 2011, Stabroek News, Upside potential: Reviving the manganese industry,
May 8, 2011, Stabroek News, Upside Potential: Gold, Once more to the rescue!,
May 1, 2011, Stabroek News, Looking at the Upside Potential of the Economy,

April 24, 2011, Stabroek News, The Remainder Downside Risks Facing the Economy,
April 17, 2011, Stabroek News, More on downside risks facing the economy,
April 10, 2011, Stabroek News, Downside risks and Guyana’s economic performance,
April 3, 2011, Stabroek News, Prospects for Guyana’s Economy over the short-to-medium term,

March 27, 2011, Stabroek News, Economic functions the government should perform and, how effectively they are being performed,
March 20, 2011, Stabroek News, Is there no role for government activity in the economy?,
March 13, 2011, Stabroek News, Why government activity is a drag on the national economy,
March 6, 2011, Stabroek News, Economic efficiency, market failure, government activity and all that,

February 27, 2011, Stabroek News, Government is huge in the economy,
February 20, 2011, Stabroek News, How big is 'big government' in Guyana?,
February 13, 2011, Stabroek News, More on the rationale for a statutory independent National Assembly Budget Office,
February 6, 2011, Stabroek News, Wanted: A statutory independent non-partisan and professionally-staffed budget office of the National Assembly,

January 30, 2011, Stabroek News, Bones of Contention: The Emerging Economies and the G7,
January 23, 2011, Stabroek News, The big let-down: The emerging economies in the G20,
January 16, 2011, Stabroek News, China: The new vanguard of 21st century exploitation of poor countries’ resources,
January 9, 2011, Stabroek News, China and the emerging economies: From Third World vanguard to neo-liberal apologists,
January 1, 2011, Stabroek News, In the eye of the global economic storm,

December 25, 2010, Stabroek News, A global crisis that will not go away,
December 19, 2010, Stabroek News, Crises dominate: Ending the first decade of the 21st century, by Clive Thomas,
December 12, 2010, Stabroek News, Uncertainty abounds: Global recovery remains fragile,
December 5, 2010, Stabroek News, Vulnerabilities in the financial regulatory and oversight system,

November 28, 2010, Stabroek News, Why do we research the underground economy?,
November 21, 2010, Stabroek News, What do the figures show?,
November 14, 2010, Stabroek News, Researching the underground economy in Guyana,
November 7, 2010, Stabroek News, Did the global crisis distinguish between criminally-sourced and legitimate remittances?,

October 31, 2010, Stabroek News, Remittances: Wages of sin or hard-working emigrants,
October 24, 2010, Stabroek News, The global crisis and capital inflows,
October 17, 2010, Stabroek News, The financial impacts of the global crisis,
October 10, 2010, Stabroek News, Statistical illusion or real changes: Guyana's new rebased national accounts,
October 3, 2010, Stabroek News, Magnification or manipulation: Guyana's rebased national accounts series,

September 26, 2010, Stabroek News, The magnifying effect of rebasing the national accounts calculations,
September 19, 2010, Stabroek News, Constrained dependence on official external financing,
September 12, 2010, Stabroek News, Facing external shocks: The perils of debt and capital inflows-led growth,
September 5, 2010, Stabroek News, Economic pitfalls: The scourge of trade and exchange rate dependence,

August 29, 2010, Stabroek News, Too small, too poor, too open: Coping with the global economic shocks,
August 22, 2010, Stabroek News, Whistling in the dark: Political spin, slothfulness and lack of coordination,
August 15, 2010, Stabroek News, The enigma of global financial markets: Stress testing 'worked' as bank failures intensify,
August 8, 2010, Stabroek News, Coping with financial meltdown and contagion: 'Stress-testing' banks,
August 1, 2010, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world:Climate aid: Global benefit or glorified scam,

July 25, 2010, Stabroek News, Governance of Rainforest Resources: Trade-off or Rip-off,
July 18, 2010, Stabroek News, Operationalising Climate Funding in a Hostile Financial and Economic Environment
July 11, 2010, Stabroek News, Why with all the growing fraud & criminality the historic polluters continue to push the carbon market?,
July 4, 2010, Stabroek News, REDD and poor rainforest countries: The unfolding of a global scam,

June 27, 2010, Stabroek News, Buyers beware: Brigands and organized criminals threaten the global carbon market,
June 20, 2010, Stabroek News, 'Gaming' the carbon market with toxic forest-carbon offset projects,
June 13, 2010, Stabroek News, Forest carbon offsets: Low-hanging fruit in the garden of evil environmentalism,
June 6, 2010, Stabroek News, The global carbon market: The new 'poster-child' of globalization,

May 23, 2010, Stabroek News, Is the carbon market a truly great commodity market?,
May 16, 2010, Stabroek News, Trading in forest-carbon: On the cusp of a remarkable expansion!,
May 9, 2010, Stabroek News, The nuts and bolts of carbon-trading exchanges,
May 2, 2010, Stabroek News, Success or failure: Mixed assessment of carbon climate exchanges,

April 25, 2010, Stabroek News, The 'mysteries and mystifications' of global carbon-trading,
April 18, 2010, Stabroek News, Shifting gears: From baseline data confusion to forest carbon markets,
April 11, 2010, Stabroek News, LCDS transitional arrangements,
April 4, 2010, Stabroek News, LCDS: Stepping-stone to a global forest-carbon market!,

March 28, 2010, Stabroek News, Norway's disingenuous once more,
March 14, 2010, Stabroek News, Compounding errors of measurement: An LCDS concern,
March 7, 2010, Stabroek News, Guyana’s LCDS: Lost in the forests,

February 28, 2010, Stabroek News, Managing the world's forests: Performance and outcome,
February 21, 2010, Stabroek News, The LCDS and the state of the world's forests,
February 14, 2010, Stabroek News, The LCDS and the commercialisation of forest-carbon services,
February 7, 2010, Stabroek News, Context: the LCDS and contradictions in global climate change negotiations,

January 31, 2010, Stabroek News, The Copenhagen Accord and private markets,
January 24, 2010, Stabroek News, 'Our bottom line: Chinese sovereignty and national interest'; Head, China's delegation at Copenhagen summit,
January 17, 2010, Stabroek News, More lessons from the Copenhagen failure,
January 10, 2010, Stabroek News, The LCDS through the lens of the Copenhagen summit,
January 3, 2010, Stabroek News, The LCDS financing gap after Norway's offer,

December 27, 2009, Stabroek News, Rule or exception: Double standards and fighting global warming,
December 20, 2009, Stabroek News, Norway and Guyana's rainforest: Santa Claus or Old Higue,
December 13, 2009, Stabroek News, Norway And Guyana's rainforest: Why beggars do not choose,
December 6, 2009, Stabroek News, Norway's deception: Partnership or capture of Guyana's rainforest,

November 29, 2009, Stabroek News, The political economy of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), by Dr. Clive Thomas, diigo,
September 18, 2013, The Atlantic, Cracking McKinsey: How to Write a Book About One of the World's Most Secretive Companies, by Jack Flack, diigo,
July 26, 2009, New York Times, The Answer Men, by Duff McDonald, diigo,
November 15, 2009, Stabroek News, A tale of betrayal: Driving the juggernaut of trade barriers against poor countries, by Dr. Clive Thomas,  
November 8, 2009, Stabroek News, All that glitters is not gold: Harvesting the broken pledges of the G20, by Dr. Clive Thomas,
November 1, 2009, Stabroek News, The Fool’s Gold of Global Economic Diplomacy: Pledges Made by Rich Countries to Poor Ones, by Dr. Clive Thomas,

October 25, 2009, Stabroek News, Pledging trade policy reform to cope with the global crisis,
October 18, 2009, Stabroek News, Responding to Some Readers Queries,
October 11, 2009, Stabroek News, Staring at the Abyss of Global Trade Collapse,
October 4, 2009, Stabroek News, Coping with crisis: trade matters,

September 27, 2009, Stabroek News, Global recovery and downside risks,
September 20, 2009, Stabroek News, Political will and consensus: Making conditional cash transfers work,
September 13, 2009, Stabroek News, Using cash to manage risk for the poorest of the poor,

August 30, 2009, Stabroek News, Making stimulus packages work,
August 23, 2009, Stabroek News, Lesson #1: Stimulus packages: Facts and fables,
August 16, 2009, Stabroek News, Economic recovery: A long way to go for the poor,
August 2, 2009, Stabroek News, Poor countries and the United Nations role in the Global Economic Crisis,

July 26, 2009, Stabroek News, Halting the runaway IMF and World Bank express!,
July 19, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
July 12, 2009, Stabroek News, The global crisis requires global solutions,
July 5, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
The global economy: Economic recovery or more misery,
July 5, 2009, Stabroek News, The global economy: Economic recovery or more misery, diigo,

June 28, 2009, Stabroek News, Cesspools of financial chicanery and political intrigue,
June 28, 2009, Stabroek News, Obituary, Ranji Chandisingh, January 5, 1930 − June 15, 2009, diigo,
June 28, 2009, Stabroek News, Cesspools of financial chicanery and political intrigue, by Dr. Clive Thomas, diigo,
June 21, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world, Is the global economy recovering?,
June 7, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world, Hiccups on the road to economic recovery!,

May 31, 2009, Stabroek News, Political spin or reality: ‘Signs of economic recovery around the corner’,
May 10, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
May 3, 2009, Stabroek News, Caricom at sea: Coping with financial contagion,

April 26, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
April 19, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
April 12, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world, CL Financial Group: Meltdown and bailout

March 29, 2009, Stabroek News, The Stanford Financial Group: Scandals and scams, Guyana and the wider world, by Clive Thomas,
March 22, 2009, Stabroek News, The phantom economy and the crisis of credibility, Guyana and the wider world,
March 15, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
March 8, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
March 1, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world – A cautionary tale: To be forewarned is to be forearmed,

February 22, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
February 15, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
February 8, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
February 1, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,

January 25, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
January 18, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
January 11, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
January 4, 2009, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,

December 28, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
December 21, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
December 14, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
December 7, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,

November 30, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the Wider World,
November 23, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
November 16, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the Wider World,
November 9, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
November 2, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,

October 26, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
October 19, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
October 12, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
October 5, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,

September 28, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
September 21, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
September 14, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,
September 7, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world,

August 31, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world, Near-term prospects for the Guyana economy: A tale of 'falling prices'
August 24, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the Wider World, World economic uncertainty: Cause or consequence,
August 17, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world, Necessary but dangerous: Non-tariff barriers in action in the EPA,
August 10, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world, Regulating or manipulating agricultural trade: The shoddy practice of non-tariff barriers, by Dr. Clive Thomas,
August 3, 2008, Stabroek News, Guyana and the wider world, The harsh reality of global agricultural trade: Artificial competitiveness and the need for safeguards, by Dr. Clive Thomas,

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