The ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP) came to power in Barbados in 2008 and it secured re-election in a close-run contest with the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) in February 2013. In last year’s poll, the electorate marginally preferred Prime Minister Freundel Stuart’s promise of “stability through austerity” to the BLP’s expansionary promise of “a fundamental change in macro-economic policies” and a rejection of the “IMF-type model”. With the December 2013 announcement that 3,000 civil servants are to be laid-off by March 2014, the electorate is getting what it voted for, including an IMF-type model.End of preview - This article contains approximately 758 words.
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