Implications for the use of biofuels with special reference to the Caribbean

Addressing the impacts of climate change: focus on the Caribbean

Overview of the water profile and the capacity of national institutions to implement integrated water resources management (Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada)

Provisional agenda. Meeting of the monitoring Committee of the CDCC

Challenges in implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for further implementation of the Small Islands Developing States Programme of Action (MSI) in the Caribbean

Caribbean priorities in implementation of the Small Island Developing States Programme of Action (SIDS/POA)

Challenges to Caribbean Tourism

The Regional Coordination Mechanism for the Implementation of the Mauritius Strategy

ECLAC Launches the Caribbean Knowledge Management Centre

Caribbean small states, vulnerability and development

Free trade and the development of sustainable agriculture in the Caribbean

This study examines the options for Caribbean countries in pursuing development of their agricultural sectors given the changes taking place in the international economy. The most significant of these changes is the liberalization of the trading regimes for primary agricultural products, in particular banana, by the European Union. This has serious implications for small Caribbean countries that rely on exports of one or a few commodities and are unable to compete in free markets. However, countries could reposition their agricultural sectors to take advantage of export niche markets and/or g…

Population Ageing - Subregional Challenges of a Global Phenomenon

Preliminary Economic Overview of Caribbean Economies

Developments in relation to the proposal for securing the international recognition of the Caribbean sea as a special area in the context of sustainable development

Our Caribbean civilisation has been very much shaped by the sea. The evidence of this in our region abounds from time immemorial: the peopling of our Caribbean; its trading; its economy and commerce, ancient and modern; its daily living and eating; its culture and its thinking. All these facets of life and production have been moulded, even determined, by the sea. Yet, strangely our Caribbean civilisation has yet to reflect in public policy the real value and significance of the sea which joins us all. To be sure, each country in the region has its own ministry of fisheries but each m…

An Integrated Management Approach to the Caribbean Sea

Food Security Issues for Caribbean

Highlighting the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the Perspectives of Caribbean SIDS

Summary of "Report of Ad-Hoc Expert Group Meeting to consider recent Implementation Exercises of the General Data Dissemination System of the IMF

Trade, environment and development: implications for Caribbean countries

Introduction Trade and development issues have been the focus of economists, policy makers and international organizations for decades. However, environmental concerns have only come to the fore within the last couple of decades largely as a result of the work of scientists on, for example, climate change and loss in biodiversity as well as the lobbying activities of environmental groups, such as Greenpeace. The linking of environment to trade only gained international prominence since the negotiations for the Canada-United States Free Trade Area in the 1980s. However, although enviro…

Caribbean Leaders Address the Potential Development Crisis which HIV/AIDS May Pose to the Caribbean