CaribEcon
CaribEcon is a centralized intelligence platform for Caribbean macroeconomic data, news, and research. It offers a chart explorer with multi-country indicators like GDP, inflation, and debt, plus a daily briefing and a filterable news feed of 2,000+ articles. The platform also includes fiscal breakdowns from official budget documents and tracks investments and M&A activity.
- Data & Analytics
- Content & Publishing
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Decision-makers tracking the Caribbean economy must manually assemble fragmented data from national statistics offices, multilateral institutions, and news outlets across 20+ small island states. Key indicators like GDP growth, inflation, FDI, and debt levels are scattered, inconsistently formatted, and rarely presented with regional context, making cross-country comparison and trend analysis time-consuming and error-prone.
Solution
CaribEcon centralizes Caribbean macroeconomic data and news into a single intelligence platform. The site offers a chart explorer with multi-country, multi-year indicators covering GDP, inflation, unemployment, FDI, and government debt, sourced from World Bank WDI and official national documents. A daily briefing distills the top economic story, while a news feed aggregates and filters 2,000+ articles from regional RSS sources by country and topic. The platform also indexes research reports from the IMF, World Bank, CDB, and ECLAC with summaries, and tracks major investments, M&A transactions, and capital market activity. Data is presented through country snapshots with year-over-year changes, fiscal breakdowns showing budget allocations and government spending vs. revenue, and visualizations that rank economies and reveal regional divergences such as Guyana's oil-led boom.
Target Audience
Primary users are economists, analysts, investors, policymakers, and researchers focused on Caribbean economies who need consolidated macro data, news, and research in one place.
Features
- Chart explorer covering GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, net FDI, and public debt across 20+ Caribbean economies with multi-year World Bank WDI data
- Daily briefing feature that highlights a lead macro story with a country's key indicators (inflation, unemployment, debt/GDP) as context
- Filterable news aggregator storing 2,080 articles from Caribbean news sources, categorized by country and topic (agriculture, energy, trade, fiscal policy, labor, tourism, technology)
- Country snapshot pages ranking economies by GDP growth, inflation, debt/GDP, and FDI with year-over-year changes and annotations (e.g., "Growth Leader," "Inflation Watch," "Debt Watch")
- Fiscal breakdown tool transcribing official national budget documents into interactive visualizations showing major allocations as shares of total spending
- Government spending vs. revenue comparison per country using a country's own currency from primary national sources
- FDI visualization with adjustment to exclude offshore financial centres (British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands) for clearer regional comparison
- Research index summarizing IMF, World Bank, CDB, and ECLAC reports, plus an investment/M&A tracking section for major transactions and capital flows