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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has concluded its May visit to Barbados. The team, which met with local officials from May 13-21, was led by Michael Perks.
At the end of the mission, Perks issued a statement saying:
“Barbados continues making good progress in implementing its home-grown BERT 2022 plan. All quantitative targets for end-March 2024 under the EFF [Extended Fund Facility] were met. The primary fiscal balance recorded a surplus of 3.7 percent of GDP in FY2023/24[1] [fiscal year 2023-2024], up from 2.5 percent of GDP in FY 2022/23 [fiscal year 2022-2023].”
Perk also confirmed that during the visit, the IMF and local authorities reached a staff level agreement, which, upon approval by the IMF Board, will give Barbados access to approximately US $19 million under the EFF and US $37 million under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF).
Read the full statement here.
[1] Barbados’ fiscal year runs from the beginning of April of one year to the end of March of the following year.