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The Committee has also defined a series of Our Covid-19 Response has received
cogent, practical and compelling actions in the international accolades including being ranked
areas of: First in the World by Oxford University, one of the
most prestigious universities in the world, in
• Improving the Ease of Doing Business, terms of our ability to roll back the lockdown, as
• Building Institutional Capacity a result of the PNM Government’s performance
• Developing Critical Supporting Infrastructure in 4 indicators, namely:
1) The overall government response
2) A containment and health index (which
combines ‘lockdown’ restrictions and
closures with measures such as testing
policy and contact tracing and
investment in healthcare
3) An economic support index (which
records measures such as income
support and debt relief)
4) The original stringency index (which
records the strictness of ‘lockdown style’
policies that primarily restrict people’s
behaviour).
Further, because of prudent and sound financial
management of the PNM Government over the
last 5 years, Trinidad and Tobago has also been
ranked by the world-renowned Economist
Magazine as 15th among 66 Emerging Economies
in the World in terms of our financial capability to
withstand the adverse effects of Covid-19.
These enabling pillars will support and facilitate We believe that our swift, purposeful and
the success of the Recovery as they cut across multifaceted response to Covid-19 has saved this
sectors and enhance the adaptability of the country and our people significant grief. and our
society to the dynamic forces of digitization and progressive policies and programmes over the
the failing globalisation. These will become the next 5 years, assisted by the recommendations of
critical enablers on which we must create a the Roadmap to Recovery Committee, and
reimagined society and economy post-COVID19. informed by our Vision 2030 Plan will ensure that
Several of the initiatives proposed by the Trinidad and Tobago’s future is positive and
Committee in its Phase One Report have already secure.
been implemented by Government, with the
Phase Two Report expected to be presented in
the near term.
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