Ankie Scott-joseph

Biography

Dr Ankie Scott-Joseph, a Vincentian national is an Organisation of American States (OAS) Scholar. She currently works as a Lecture in Economics. Previously she worked as an Economic Statistician in the Canada/Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Debt Management Advisory Services Unit (DMAS). Prior to joining the ECCB, she served as an Economist in the Ministry of Finance, St Vincent and the Grenadines. She has held a consultant position at the United Nations. She has published articles in regional journals. Her main research interest is in Macroeconomics with emphasis on fiscal policy and debt sustainability. Dr scott-Joseph serves as a Research Associate of the Journal of Business, Finance and Economics in Emerging Economies. She is currently a member of the Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance research group on Debt Sustainability. In 2007 Dr Scott-Joseph received the International Association for Official Statistician, New Zealand, prize for the best papers written by young official statisticians. Dr. Scott-Joseph holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, a master’s degree in Econometrics from the University of Manchester in the UK and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Dr Scott-Joseph has also been an E-Tutor for four (4) Economic courses at the Open Campus: Introductory to Micro Economics, Introductory to Macro Economics, Economic Development and Managerial Economics. She has lectured Econometrics I and served as an External Examiners at the UWI Cave Hill Campus.

Research Interest

The Foreign Tax Compliance Act – Is this the Ultimate Tax Sneeze? Index of Leading Indicators for Barbados and the OECS