The emergence of Venezuelan-promoted ALBA and Petrocaribe and their growing relations with several Caricom countries is a significant recent development in regional affairs; with Petrocaribe now the largest source of concessional lending to Caribbean oil-importing countries. This paper examines the trade, financial and social cooperation programmes of ALBA and concludes that participation in ALBA is [...]

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Raw Deal: The EU’s unfair trade agreements with Mexico and South Africa - a new report by the World Development Movement This new report presents evidence from existing EU trade deals with South Africa and Mexico showing how they have hindered rather than helped development. Looking at examples in agriculture, industrial products and services, the [...]

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Third Distinguished Lecture in a series in honour of Sir Arthur Lewis, the English-speaking Caribbean’s first Nobel Laureate. Vaughan Lewis is Professor at the UWI Institute of International Relations, St. Augustine, Trinidad.
Arthur Lewis can be said to have been a child of the integration movement…His very early writings all sought to deal with the [...]

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