May 08 2013
While international aid for economic development often fails, business has the potential to bring millions of people out of poverty. For no enterprise is this more true than the unsung $300 billion industry known as Business Process Outsourcing.
Michael Chertok
(Huff Post Impact)
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June 2013
THAILAND Brussels, 31 May 2013
EU and Thai officials have just completed the first round of negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement. Meeting in Brussels from 27-31 May.
(European Commission Trade)
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June 2013
NEW YORK, United States, Monday June 3, 2013
A major international credit rating agency says three bond restructurings in the Caribbean this year, totaling about US$9.7 billion, have still failed to ignite economic growth and may not help the region avoid more defaults. (CMC)
Nelson A. King
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June 2013
31st May 2013
The Canadian province of Ontario will comply with the ruling by the World Trade Organization to change its controversial Green Energy Act, Bob Chiarelli, the province’s energy minister said last Wednesday. The revised legislation is expected to be implemented by early next year.
Read here: http://ictsd.org/i/news/biores/165086/
May 2013
MADRID |
Europe will protect its cultural subsidies in a proposed free-trade pact with the United States, the EU trade chief said on Friday.
(Reporting by Julien Toyer; Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)
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May 2013
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Wednesday May 29, 2013
The Central Bank of Barbados says a recent report issued by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is raising many “difficult issues not least of which is the need for an international coordinated approach on the rights to tax”.
(CMC)
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May 2013
24th May 2013
The EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council, who met in Brussels on 18th March 2013, proposed to advance the deadline for ending sugar quotas for Africa, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP).
Sources:
Conseil de l’UE: les quotas sucriers devraient expirer en 2017, CTA Bruxelles - 22 mai 2013
ACP/LDC sugar group deeply disappointed with EU council proposal on sugar, Bruxelles - 21 Mars 2013
Europe Sugar-Quota Ban May Raise African Trade, Ecobank Says, Bloomberg - 19 avril 2017
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May 2013
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tuesday May 28, 2013
The Barbados government has welcomed the agreement signed by Foursquare Rum Distillery to distill, blend and bottle a brand of rum known as “10 Cane’ which officials say is expected to rake in BDS$100 million (One Barbados dollar = US$0.50 cents) in foreign exchange.
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May 2013
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Tuesday May 28, 2013
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are “actively pursuing” the development of a Regional Counter Illicit Trafficking Strategy, Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar said Tuesday.
(CMC)
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May 2013
WASHINGTON D.C., United States, Tuesday May 21, 2013
A new World Bank report predicts that in less than a generation, the Caribbean will be among developing countries dominating global saving and investment.
(CMC)
Caribbean 360
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May 2013
May 21, 2013
While international aid for economic development often fails, business has the potential to bring millions of people out of poverty. For no enterprise is this more true than the unsung $300 billion industry known as Business Process Outsourcing
by Michael Chertok Co-founder, Chief Development Officer, Digital Divide Data
HUFF POST Impact
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May 2013
May 04, 2013
Lack of confidence prevents economic growth; developing countries have to do more to diversify their economies, ITC’s Executive Director tells global conferences in Dubai.
ITC Communications
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May 2013
Thu, May 16, 2013 GENEVA
As British Prime Minister David Cameron struggles to accommodate eurosceptics in his own party, trade experts warn that quitting the European Union would forceBritain not just to rework trade relations with the EU, but also with the EU's trade partners and probably the World Trade Organization.
By Tom Miles
(Reuters)
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May 2013
May 15 2013
JAMAICAN AUTHORITIES have imposed duties on the importation of lubricating oil from Trinidad and Tobago in another round of trade wars between the Caribbean territories.
May 2013
May 15 2013
JAMAICAN AUTHORITIES have imposed duties on the importation of lubricating oil from Trinidad and Tobago in another round of trade wars between the Caribbean territories.
May 2013
ROSEAU, Dominica, Thursday May 8, 2013
A three-day regional workshop aimed at promoting regional economic integration as part of an International Financial Corporation (FIC) implemented initiative to automate the Bureau of Standards’ clearance for imports began here Wednesday.
CMC
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May 2013
WASHINGTON D.C., United States, Thursday May 9, 2013
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Antigua and Barbuda has made “excellent progress” towards achieving its goal of restoring debt sustainability and macroeconomic stability.
CMC
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May 2013
WASHINGTON D.C., United States, Tuesday May 7, 2013
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Caribbean countries will experience economic growth of just over one per cent this year, even as Latin America and the Caribbean will record half a percent economic growth in 2013.
CMC
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May 2013
Brussels, 8 May 2013
EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht today welcomed the appointment of Mr Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo, as the next Director General of the World Trade Organisation
(WTO)
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May 2013
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Wednesday May 8, 2013
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) has reiterated the need for an amicable solution to the rum dispute with the United States.
CMC
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May 2013
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Thursday May 8, 2013
United States Vice President Joe Biden is due here at the end of May, the US Embassy has confirmed.
CMC
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May 2013
2 May 2013 Georgetown, Guyana
Opening Remarks By Ambassador Irwin Larocque, Caricom Secretary-General At The Thirty-Sixth Meeting Of The Council For Trade And Economic Development (COTED)
Read here: http://www.caricom.org/
May 2013
Brussels, 6 May 2013
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THE EU and the WTO
May 2013
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Thursday April 25, 2013
Guyana Wednesday made an impassioned plea for business investments from its oil rich Caribbean Community (CARICOM) neighbour, Trinidad and Tobago, saying it also provides a gateway for investment in South America.
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April 2013
WASHINGTON D.C., United States, Thursday April 25, 2013
The World Bank says Grenada has advanced towards fiscal governance and investment promotion and that it is also seeking to modernise several areas of its operations as part of a project to enhance fiscal governance and promote investment.
Nelson A. King
(CMC) Read here: http://www.caribbean360.com
April 2013