Britain says despite its own economic problems, it has been able to double by 50 percent annually, its bilateral assistance to the Caribbean.
Head of DFID (Department for International Development) Caribbean, Harry Hagan, says since the coalition government took office Britain had increased that assistance to 75 million pounds over four years.
He said British [...]
Continue Reading →A subgroup of WTO members is currently holding “exploratory talks” on the possibility of a services liberalisation agreement, sources close to the talks have confirmed. The subgroup currently includes 16 of the organisation’s members, including the US, Australia, and the EU.
The countries discussing a possible services agreement are part of a group called the [...]
Continue Reading →As President Obama tirelessly points out, the U.S. manufacturing sector is experiencing a long-sought rebound — adding about 400,000 jobs over the past two years. This is welcome news, and it is justifiably generating headlines.
But a rebound in the manufacturing sector alone will not be enough to speed the recovery. Manufacturing is an important [...]
Continue Reading →Barbadian businesses must move away from producing generic goods and services and look towards creating exportable brands, indigenous to the island.
So says Director of the Barbados Coalition of Service Industries (BCSI), Paul Clarke, who recently spoke with The Barbados Advocate on what he believed was the lack of brand consciousness of local entrepreneurs, particularly [...]
Continue Reading →With robust economic growth, the Chinese business sector is poised for a 2012 “buying binge” that could benefit small U.S. companies, says James Chan, president of Asia Marketing & Management, a Philadelphia consultancy. Chan was born in Canton (now Guangzhou) and educated in Hong Kong and the U.S., and he has been advising American exporters [...]
Continue Reading →ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Antigua & Barbuda’s attorney in the country’s seven-year-old gaming dispute with the United States yesterday said the US Department of Justice’s reversed opinion on what forms of Internet gaming were covered by the Federal 1961 Wire Act should lead the way to a resolution of the matter.
Until now, the Justice [...]
Continue Reading →THE 153 members of the World Trade Organisation agree on two things: We’re in a hole. And we must keep digging. The hole is the Doha Development Round, a decade-old negotiation that was billed as the next stage of trade liberalisation after the creation of the WTO itself.
After repeated failures to clinch a deal, [...]
Continue Reading →Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), today announced the establishment of a new competition to help Hispanic entrepreneurs implement creative new social and business ideas addressing issues of economic growth, food, security, water, and climate change in the region.
The announcement was made at Unleashing IdEA, an event launching Global Entrepreneurship [...]
Continue Reading →(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A two-day, first of its kind regional forum of CARIFORUM Officials held in Saint John’s, Antigua and Barbuda concluded October 26, stressing the need for action on communications and public education in support of the implementation of the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
In this Workshop on the Communications [...]
Continue Reading →WASHINGTON, Nov 04, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Because the United States has a strong comparative advantage in the area of high-wage, high-skill service jobs, Georgetown University Professor J. Bradford Jensen argues that the country should adopt policies to remove impediments to global services trade.
In his new book, Global Trade in Services: Fear, [...]
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- Forming and Running a National Coalition of Service Industries: An Action Checklist, including ideas and issues to tackle, International Trade and Services Policy, Spain
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