Report Prepared for the XIX Summit of the Rio Group, Georgetown, Guyana, February 2007
With respect to small countries, particularly those in the CARICOM grouping, the Technical Working Group generated a large number of suggested measures and actions. Proposals for the consideration of the Summit should consist of a practical and immediate steps [...]

Filed under: Caribbean Integration |

My first observation is that there is very little that is new in this document, either by way of diagnosis or of prescription. It attributes Jamaica’s economic problems principally to the effects of violence, the debt burden and an inadequate education system; which is hardly a discovery. Its policy proposals consist mostly of broad generalizations [...]

Filed under: Norman's Commentaries 2000-2007 |

Prepared for the ‘Rio Group’ of Latin American and Caribbean Countries during the period of Guyana’s chairmanship, the paper assesses existing asymmetries within the Latin and American region, focusing on those related to size and vulnerability, and discusses their implications. It reviews the treatment of asymmetries in global and regional trade arrangements; and suggests concrete [...]

Filed under: Globalisation & the Caribbean |