This study examines the impact of de-risking on the study countries—bank and non-bank sectors. The study approach is based on survey instruments, consultations and analysis of secondary data. The impacts that have been observed, to date, have generally been discounted in most analysis as “anecdotal” and not valid for “reliable inference”1. However, in small economies such as those in this study what is anecdotal may be indeed reasonable for inference. The typically small number of banks as well as their dominance in the financial sectors of these small states suggests that reduced banking serv…
Offshore Shore Centres (OFCs) are generally small, low tax jurisdictions. In defining International Financial Centers (IFC’s) the International Monetary Fund (IMF) notes that there must be a large number of financial institutions functioning in a simplified regulatory environment, with low or no tax, and with the majority of its transactions initiated offshore. Regional Financial Centres (RFCs) are groups or blocks of countries, viewed as IFCs and which have specialties in the offshore financial business .
Many Caribbean islands, including Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Mont…
Caribbean countries have been seriously impacted by the trend toward “de-risking” in the global financial system, and this is damaging to their economic security and the ability of Caribbean businesses to innovate. De-risking is the name given to the tendency of banking institutions to turn away from working relationships and lines of business for which the cost of regulatory compliance—and the risk of non-compliance— is deemed to be too high in comparison to the returns. This is a phenomenon that is affecting developing economies around the world, but the small and vulnerable economies of the…
La actividad agropecuaria en El Salvador, así como en el resto de países de la región, se enfrenta a diversas amenazas asociadas a la variabilidad y el cambio climático que han exacerbado los excesos y déficits de lluvia, y han originado el incremento paulatino de la temperatura. La actividad agropecuaria no está exenta de otras amenazas como las biológicas, geológicas y de mercado. A estas amenazas, se suman la fragilidad económica en la actividad agropecuaria que se manifiesta en bajos rendimientos, productividad e ingresos, y en la vulnerabilidad social en la zona rural que se expresa en el…
The initiative, called CE-Digital, is organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in its role as technical secretariat of the eLAC process, CAF - Latin America Development Bank and the GSMA.…
La iniciativa CE – Digital es organizada por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en su rol de secretaría técnica del eLAC, la CAF – Banco de desarrollo de América Latina y la GSMA.…
En este documento se analiza la problemática del desarrollo basado en industrias de commodities. Al respecto se postula que los enfoques tradicionales no son suficientes para entender las especificidades de estos procesos y sugiere que un marco conceptual adecuado debería tomar en cuenta la evolución simultánea de tres esferas distintas de la sociedad: la organización industrial del sector productivo; la estructura y comportamiento del aparato regulatorio y la organización social de las comunidades en las que se lleva a cabo la explotación de los recursos.…
The objectives of this report are twofold: The first is to provide an integrated overview of the governance of strategic minerals in the Latin American and Caribbean region, focused on sharing the economic-resource rent. The second objective is to provide a context for the policy proposal of the Chilean National Lithium Commission (NLC. The collected data, and information, on the various fiscal regimes can be used as a reference for further research.
The objectives in this report are met by analyzing distinct aspects of strategic mineral governance, in three different parts. The lithium-indust…