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["Esteban Perez" <eperez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You wrote:

Take, for example, the small Caribbean micro-states of the
> > Eastern Caribbean ... with imports corresponding to half or
> > more of GDP, the external finance constraint is something
> > that bites quick and hard.
> >
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The current account deficit for Eastern Caribbean Countries (belonging to the Eastern CAribbean Currency Union) was  17% of GDP (2000), 16% in 1999, 15% in 1998.