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Keynote Address by the Honourable Colm Imbert, Minister of Finance at the United Nations Big Data Forum 2021

Keynote Address by the Honourable Colm Imbert, MP, Minister of Finance, Government of Trinidad and Tobago at the United Nations Trinidad & Tobago Big Data Forum on Wednesday 1st December, 2021 themed The Transformational Role of Big Data Technologies and Analytics – Economic Transformation. Speech Theme: “Using big data to drive meaningful change in T&T”

Media Release : The IMF Praises Trinidad and Tobago’s Policy Response to Covid-19 and Encourages T&T to Shift its Policy Attention Only When Recovery is in Place

The IMF noted that Trinidad and Tobago faced “unprecedented challenges in 2020-21. The combined effects of COVID-19, energy production cuts, and price shocks pushed the economy further into recession”. In the face of such challenges, the IMF concluded that “The authorities’ decisive policy response helped contain COVID-19’s spread, protectlives and livelihoods, and paved the way…