Accelerating Trade And Integration In The Caribbean

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821380192

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Accelerating Trade and Integration in the Caribbean by World Bank Pdf

The main objective of this report is to help policymakers in the Caribbean design an agenda of policy actions to accelerate trade integration and growth and reduce poverty. The report is a joint response from the World Bank and the Organization of American States (OAS) to a demand statement from the member states of CARICOM, formulated by the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery and the CARICOM Secretariat, to strengthen the analytical underpinnings of the linkages between trade, economic growth, and poverty. It aims at centering the Caribbean's next round of trade reforms and its overall agenda around trade on these key thematic areas. The report provides an overview of the economic and trade system context of the Caribbean, under which the new trade environment is operating. It then discusses the opportunities and challenges for the Caribbean associated with the new trade environment. It finally quantifies the gains from global trade integration using a dynamic macroeconomic analysis. The report provides policy priorities to accelerating Caribbean integration into the world economy and to reap the benefits of global competition. Each part of the report focuses on a key question and adds value by providing an in-depth analysis of the issues raised and laying the foundations for policy recommendations described in the last chapter of the report: * Part I (Overview of economic and trade system context): is Caribbean's economic and trade system sound enough to sustain the new era of its global trade relations which is being shaped? * Part II (Focuses on the analysis of the new opportunities and challenges of the new trade environment): what are the opportunities and challenges that the new trade environment offers to the Caribbean? * Part III (Presents an assessment of the impact of the EPA on growth and poverty using two types of macroeconomic models): what are the gains in terms of growth and poverty reduction of the recently negotiated EPA?

Author : Yvonne M. Tsikata
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1075862037

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Accelerating Trade and Integration in the Caribbean by Yvonne M. Tsikata Pdf

Author : International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475586022

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Cluster Report by International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept. Pdf

This cluster report takes stock of and explores opportunities for trade integration in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Drawing on a set of 12 analytical studies that will be issued as working papers, the report examines the determinants of trade, explores the potential to enhance LAC’s trade integration, and assesses the associated economic and social effects. To deepen understanding of the region’s policy options and trade strategies, the report also incorporates the views of LAC country authorities based on responses to a survey. This provides an opportunity to examine the alignment of recommendations based on the analytical findings with the region’s current trade policy priorities, with the caveat that the survey was conducted between late 2015 and mid-2016, prior to the most recent developments in the global trade landscape.

Author : Abdullah Al-Hassan,Mary E. Burfisher,Mr.Julian T Chow,Ding Ding,Fabio Di Vittorio,Dmitriy Kovtun,Arnold McIntyre,Ms.Inci Ötker,Marika Santoro,Lulu Shui,Karim Youssef
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513525860

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Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of its Parts? Strengthening Caribbean Regional Integration by Abdullah Al-Hassan,Mary E. Burfisher,Mr.Julian T Chow,Ding Ding,Fabio Di Vittorio,Dmitriy Kovtun,Arnold McIntyre,Ms.Inci Ötker,Marika Santoro,Lulu Shui,Karim Youssef Pdf

Deeper economic integration within the Caribbean has been a regional policy priority since the establishment of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the decision to create the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME). Implementation of integration initiatives has, however, been slow, despite the stated commitment of political leaders. The “implementation deficit” has led to skepticism about completing the CSME and controversy regarding its benefits. This paper analyzes how Caribbean integration has evolved, discusses the obstacles to progress, and explores the potential benefits from greater integration. It argues that further economic integration through liberalization of trade and labor mobility can generate significant macroeconomic benefits, but slow progress in completing the institutional arrangements has hindered implementation of the essential components of the CSME and progress in economic integration. Advancing institutional integration through harmonization and rationalization of key institutions and processes can reduce the fixed costs of institutions, providing the needed scale and boost to regional integration. Greater cooperation in several functional policy areas where the region is facing common challenges can also provide low-hanging fruit, creating momentum toward full integration as the Community continues to address the obstacles to full economic integration.

Author : Kenneth Hall
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466910751

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Regional Integration: Key to Caribbean Survival and Prosperity by Kenneth Hall Pdf

This publication contains a number of papers on issues which are key to Caribbean survival and prosperity. They critically review the challenges facing Member States of CARICOM. Written by a number of outstanding authors of recognized academic pedigree, these analyses look at the Region across a spectrum of issues: political, economic, social and environmental, among others. Attention is focused on efforts at regional integration as well as on the options to be pursued be CARICOM if it is to survive in the new political, economic and social dispensation. The book is replete with insightful; presentations on the evolution of the Community at this point in its history.

Author : W. Andrew Axline
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035557573

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Caribbean Integration by W. Andrew Axline Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781457816628

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The Impact of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, 19th Report 2007-2008, Inv. 332-227 by Anonim Pdf

Author : R. Bernal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137356314

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Globalization, Trade, and Economic Development by R. Bernal Pdf

This is the most in-depth study of the economic partnership between the European Union and the CARIFORUM countries, a group of fifteen small developing economies in the Caribbean. The CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is the first trade agreement of its kind, as it is a new type of WTO-compatible trade agreement between a group of developed countries and a group of developing countries. As a principal negotiator for CARIFORUM, Bernal's qualifications allow him to provide a unique perspective on the increasingly important topic of trade and economic development in the midst of globalization. Globalization, Trade, and Economic Development comprehensively explores the components of the EPA from all angles, explains how the agreement provides opportunities to strengthen and accelerate economic development, and outlines the policies which can allow the CARIFORUM countries to seize these opportunities. Bernal's explanation of the institutional arrangements for the conduct of the negotiations by CARIFORUM is invaluable to governments and regional organizations in developing countries for coordinating groups to advance common and joint positions in international negotiations.

Author : Mauricio Mesquita Moreira,Ernesto Stein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1597823643

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Trading Promises for Results by Mauricio Mesquita Moreira,Ernesto Stein Pdf

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451811735

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Eastern Caribbean Currency Union by International Monetary Fund Pdf

The Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) countries financial system has increasingly come under stress particularly through weakly supervised nonbank and offshore financial sectors with knock-on effects to domestic banks. The staff report focuses on ECCU’s 2009 discussion on common policies of member countries on economic development and policies. In response, ECCU authorities have accelerated the establishment of national Single Regulatory Units and the passage of harmonized legislation to strengthen then regulation and supervision of nonbanks and offshore institutions.

Author : Americo Beviglia Zampetti,Lodge, Junior
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041132840

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The CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement by Americo Beviglia Zampetti,Lodge, Junior Pdf

The CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement is a sui generis North-South trade and development agreement. The C-EPA is a bi-regional agreement, signed in Bridgetown, Barbados in October 2008, with the specific aim of supporting the sustainable development of the Caribbean. As a paradigm changer in the ACP-EU trade relationship, the C-EPA has unsurprisingly attracted considerable attention. The long process of ratification by twenty-seven EU Member States and fifteen Caribbean countries has begun, and implementation is advancing after an initial delay. This book is the first detailed analysis of the Agreement's provisions, including its negotiating history and prognosis of its future potential. It is written by fifteen Caribbean and European practitioners, most of whom actively contributed to the crafting of the Agreement as CARIFORUM or EU negotiators. The contributions cover the following: ; charting a dual approach to CARIFORUM commitments at both regional and national levels; establishing an architecture of commitments that seeks to support CARIFORUM regional integration; safeguarding Caribbean preferential access to the EU market; broadening the ambit of the Caribbean-EU relationship, as reflected in the Cotonou Agreement, into new trade disciplines; highlighting key drivers in the negotiations; addressing the CARICOM-Dominican Republic economic relationship; examining the special treatment of Haiti; and reviewing the C-EPA's compatibility with WTO rules.

Author : Roger Hosein,Jeetendra Khadan,Ranita Seecharan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 9766405573

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Caribbean Trade and Integration by Roger Hosein,Jeetendra Khadan,Ranita Seecharan Pdf

Regional integration has emerged as perhaps the most controversial issue within the Caribbean. While some progress in implementing economic reforms, both at the national and regional level are observable, the efforts made by Caribbean policymakers to strengthen regional cooperation and integration have not yielded the envisioned level of economic transformation. Caribbean Trade and Integration distinguishes itself by combining history with sound economic and policy analysis. Moreover, this book reviews a survey of several key historical studies that have identified the urgent need for a change in policy action among Caribbean Community member states over time and that have outlined many pointed policy suggestions to effect the same. The book culminates by addressing the need to unpause the Caribbean Single Market and Economy and proposes a number of initiatives to generate this outcome. While this book is written to appeal to an academic audience, it also provides essential reading for policy practitioners, stakeholder groups, the CARICOM Secretariat and those interested in the dynamics of Caribbean regional integration.

Author : Michael Witter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138622656

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The Caribbean Economies in an Era of Free Trade by Michael Witter Pdf

This book is concerned with the impact of economic globalization and an unregulated global market system on the Caribbean economies. The book is in three parts. Part I examines theoretical issues and includes an assessment of recent globalization trends, the limits of globalization, and the question of uneven development. Part II considers alternative policy solutions including interventionist alternatives, effective monetary strategies and innovative tourism strategies. Part III focuses on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Overall, this book provides a rich menu for alternative economic policies in the Caribbean at the turn of the century.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292541569

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Pacific Economic Monitor July 2013 by Asian Development Bank Pdf

This edition of the Pacific Economic Monitor updates 2013 and 2014 GDP growth and inflation projections for ADB's Pacific developing member countries. The theme of the policy briefs included in this issue is regional cooperation and integration.

Author : Kenneth Hall,Myrtle Chuck-A-Sang
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466911062

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Caribbean Community by Kenneth Hall,Myrtle Chuck-A-Sang Pdf

The papers which comprise this publication, The Caribbean Community: The Struggle for Survival represents the Editor's choice from among thousands of articles, books and other commentaries that have provided clear and reasoned responses and solutions to inform and guide Caribbean leadership and the people of the Region. They also take a comprehensive look at regional intergration and serve as a guide to those with an interest in following the development in the Carribean Community. The book offers prescriptions for our success as a Community which are predicated on advice regarding what our political leaders should do in a normal context of the evolution of the Community. These prescriptions are based on sound scholarship and competent analysis. The book is an invaluable addition to the existing literature on Caribbean integration and should be part of any compendium on the study of the subject.