00610nam a2200097Ia 450000500170000010000200001724500700003726000090010752003780011658300180049420260716043506.0  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