“And context is all the more important Professor Moore because more and more, as I read sometimes the newspapers, I wonder whether people have lost perspective and lost context for to hear that $900 million from an IMF program is something that will cripple a country when that constitutes a mere 6.4% of its debt. And at no stage would it garnish more than 4% of the revenues in servicing the debt, tells me that that figure has been used to excite persons without context, because if context was placed, then you would realize that that amount is not only one of the smallest amounts, but that the capacity to service the debt is more than manageable. And that thirdly, if you look at it from the perspective that the debt was used to be able to secure from buses to transport people home - near and far - to garbage trucks, to equipment to deal with roads, to a whole range of things, then you have context and perspective.” Excerpt of remarks made at the launch of volumes 1 & 2 of Caribbean Trade, Integration and Development. Errol Barrow Centre for Excellence and Imagination, UWI Cave Hill Campus