Reports

The Global Competitiveness Report 2014-2015, produced and published online by the World Economic Forum (WEF),  assesses the competitiveness landscape of 144 economies based on a review of twelve broad factors that affect competitiveness. The twelve are the Institutional Environment; Infrastructure; Macroeconomic Environment; Health and Primary Education; Higher Education and Learning; Goods Market Efficiency; Labour Market Efficiency; Financial Market Development; Technological Readiness; Market Size; Business Sophistication; and Innovation.

This paper analyses the likely implications of electronic commerce on tax revenues in the Caribbean Community. I utilised a static microeconomic approach to determine the effects.

The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in collaboration with the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C), the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Amazon Project, the Global Environment Facility International Waters Learning Exchange & Resource Network (GEFIW:LEARN), the Caribbean Aqua-Terrestrial Solutions (CATS) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and the United Nations Environment Programme Caribbean Regional Coordinating Unit (UNEP Car/RCU), convened the Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) Knowledge Network Forum, which was held in Saint

The report is meant to provide a vision for the development of the Caribbean Community to which all stakeholders can give their support. It serves as the basis for decisions by the Heads of Government on a ‘road map’ for the further
implementation of the Caricom Single Market and Economy. It is the product of an extensive process of consultation with regional stakeholders and with the relevant organs of the Community over the past two years.

The Caribbean Community, hereafter referred to as CARICOM, came into being on 1973, July 04, with the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas as the successor to the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA). CARICOM was expected to extend the free trade area that had obtained in CARIFTA to include the free movement of labour and capital and the coordination of agricultural, industrial and foreign policies. The Common Market is an integral platform of CARICOM.

As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framework comes to a close in 2015, the Caribbean Region is advocating for a comprehensive and transformative Post 2015 and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) development agenda. The goal of advocacy efforts will be to ensure that Caribbean specific priorities for the achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment are advanced.  The emerging global development frameworks must address the structural foundations of gender-based inequality, including the recognition that inequalities are a consequence of the unequal relations of power.

This Plan of Action (PoA) provides a framework for establishing a more constructive approach to mainstreaming gender in CARICOM’s work programme, the conduct of research, and the design and implementation of policies and programmes by governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which share responsibility for working towards gender equality in CARICOM member states.

In strategizing for the new period of operation, the IICA Office in Guyana Technical Cooperation Strategy (ICS) will be aligned with the general functionality of the Medium-Term Plan (MTP) 2014-2018. The general approach in the preparation of the document has been one of consultation, both at the levels of document/policy analysis and formal discussions with officials of the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and other stakeholders.