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Reflections on the Treatment of Asymmetries

Panel at the Caribbean Deveopment Bank Annual Meeting held in Caracas, June 20-22, 2007.

The treatment of asymmetries is one of the most urgent challenges facing regional cooperation in Latin America and
Caribbean. Most integration schemes in the region contain provisions that take account of inter-country asymmetries but that these have failed to produce the  desired results. Income [...]

Size and Trade Tax Dependence

   Comment on paper on ‘Fiscal Reform and Compensatory Mechanisms’, by Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira Filho; PEP-IDB Policy Forum on Trade and Poverty; Lima, Peru, June 11, 2007.
My comments are set against the recurrent theme of heterogeneity among developing economies. The particular aspect that concerns me is heterogeneity of size. …
The fall in total [...]

FOOD SECURITY AND THE EPA

From Stabroek News, 2/06/08 
The extraordinary rise in food prices over the last couple of years has given a new prominence and urgency to this problem in the Caribbean, where as Tony Weis pointed out in a recent Diaspora column, “food security is so utterly wedded to global markets and heretofore cheap breadbasket imports”…The EPA provisions [...]