IMF Programme Success To Reinforce Barbados PM Mottley

• Fitch Solutions believe the successful implementation of Barbados’ IMF programme will reinforce Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s administration.
• Mottley’s popularity, as well as the Barbados Labour Party’s supermajority in the House of Assembly, will allow the Prime Minister to pursue more long-term goals in both environmental and foreign policy.
• Nonetheless, fiscal austerity and a sharp increase in Barbados’ violent crime rate pose downside risks to Mottley’s popularity and ability to implement the programme.

(Source: Fitch