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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19910119
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BARBADOS is a very respectable little island. It owes no man anything, pays its own way, and never makes a poor mouth." That's what Anthony Trollope, a post-office inspector, said last century, and it was true until just the other day. Most people live comfortably. Public services work. Democracy, which began with an island assembly in 1636, is in fine condition. But the paradise image is wearing thin, and the government has called an election for january 22nd-perhaps because it sees worse trouble ahead.

The Barbadian government, used to prudent financing, now owes a lot of ...

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