Barbados In Top 50 But C’bbean Globally Uncompetitive
September 10, 2010 2 Comments
Only one Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country made the top 50 countries in the World Economic Forum’s “Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011”. 
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