00581nam a2200085Ia 4500100002000000245007000020260000900090520037800099583001800477  aModeste, Nelson  aInterest rate convergence among some selected Caribbean economies  c2003  aLooks at the convergence of the deposit rate and the lending rate among the economies of Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, and the seven Organization of Eastern Caribbean States.  Concludes that more competition among banks for bank deposits should be promoted on a regional basis as a means of further enhancing the linkage of bank deposits rates regionally.  c6/26/03kJOYD