Both Sides of The Coin: The Story of The Central Bank of Barbados 1972-2017

Chapter 5: Some Notable Developments 217 regional publications. Up to the end of the 1990s, two-thirds of the research efforts were by single authors. This changed dramatically between 2000 and 2016 when three out of every four publications were jointly authored, perhaps reflective of a more collaborative approach to research in the face of increasing demands on time. By the end of 2016, the writers with the most published items were Roland Craigwell and DeLisle Worrell, with 78 and 59 contributions, respectively. (See Table 7). ROLAND CRAIGWELL - The Consummate Researcher Roland Craigwell was the Central Bank’s most prolific writer, authoring or co- authoring 68 published papers while he was on the staff and collaborating with Bank economists on another ten after he resigned in 2008 to take up a post at the UWI. He joined the Bank as Research Assistant in 1986 and from early showed that one of his goals as a researcher was to produce high quality work that could compete on the world stage. His first publication, On the Determination of the External Public Debt: The Case of Barbados , with Llewellyn Rock and Ronald Sealy, did not appear in the Bank’s Economic Review as would be expected for a young economist. It came out in the regional journal Social and Economic Studies in 1988. Actually, Craigwell’s first six articles were published in regional or international journals. It was not until 1991 that one of his papers, Conceptual and Empirical Issues in the Specification of a Poverty Line , was published in the Economic Review . Thereafter a discernible pattern set in whereby there would be a stream of papers in regional and international journals, interrupted by an offering or two in one of the Bank’s outlets. Because of the high quality of his work, better than two- thirds of Roland’s papers, while at the Bank, were published in regional and international journals. Dr. Roland Craigwell.