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Lamy calls for better crafted regulation and a Doha Round deal to restore trust
Released: 4 November 2008
“Amidst the chaos that we are witnessing today, what we need is greater regulation"
Lamy welcomes building new Bretton Woods
Released: 20 October 2008
WTO Director General addresses conference in Beijing
ACP Irrelevant: Caricom at Risk
Released: 10 October 2008
Troika to “engage in high-level consultations” on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU)
World Financial Crisis will hurt the Caribbean
Released: 26 September 2008
Events in the financial markets in the last few weeks portend a world of great uncertainty and instability that will have an adverse impact on the economies of developing countries, including those in the Caribbean.
CARIFORUM agrees to sign EPA
Released: 18 September 2008
The Caribbean Forum of African Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) has agreed to a date in October to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU)
WTO negotiations: The way ahead
Released: 17 September 2008
Professor Manoj Pant, Centre for International Trade and Development, JNU
Political Union? The devil is in the detail
Released: 17 September 2008
The leaders of the seven-nation Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are reported to have agreed on September 11th that their countries will form a political union with Trinidad and Tobago.
No more Yen for whales
Released: 18 June 2008
Dominica’s Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, and his cabinet have taken a decision that will not endear them to the Japan Whaling Association or to some of the governments in nearby Caribbean states
Setting the China Question: A Caribbean challenge
Released: 2 May 2008
In a week which saw the World Health Organisation (WHO) reject Taiwan’s application for membership, and a senior representative of Taiwan hold closed-doors discussion with top officials of the government of China, I was asked on a Caribbean-wide television programme what advice I would give, if asked, to Caribbean governments that maintain diplomatic ties to Taiwan.
Global imbalances and Caribbean development
Released: 2 April 2008
As a former finance minister, and now head of Caribbean operations at a United States-based financial institution, Trinidadian Wendell Mottley is perhaps well placed to speak with authority on the economic problems of the Caribbean, particularly in light of a possible recession in the United States.