VIDEO LINK – Webinar 3: Caribbean-African Trade Webinar
Thank you to all who attended Webinar 3 in our Caribbean-Africa Trade Webinar series, which took place on Friday, 9 July. In case you missed it, please see the video recording below: Remember that the registration link is the same for all the webinars! REGISTER HERE: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Hea1Q608Qk-YPukG5lHCqQ
Webinar 3 – Caribbean-African Trade Webinar Series
Join the SRC on Friday, July 9th for the 3rd in our co-hosted webinar series on Caribbean-Africa Trade! The featured speakers for this third webinar “Trade Regimes: Goods, Services and Intellectual Property” will be Ms. Gladys Young (CARICOM) and Mr. Tsotetsi Makong (Trapca). The event will be facilitated by Dr. Jan Yves Remy (SRC) and Khololefo Kugler (Trade Policy Exchange). See flyer above. Register for this and the upcoming webinars in the series here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Hea1Q608Qk-YPukG5lHCqQ. Get the chance to watch the video recording for the second webinar here.
VIDEO LINK – Webinar 2: Caribbean-African Trade Webinar
Thank you to all who attended Webinar 2 in our Caribbean-Africa Trade Webinar series, which took place last week Wednesday, 30 June. In case you missed it, please see the video recording below: Remember that the registration link is the same for all the webinars! REGISTER HERE: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Hea1Q608Qk-YPukG5lHCqQ
Inaugural Distinguished Owen Seymour Arthur Memorial Lecture – July 17
Coming up July 19th is our inaugural Distinguished Owen Seymour Arthur Memorial Lecture! See flyer below!
Webinar 2 – Caribbean-Africa Trade Series
Join the SRC on Wednesday, June 30th for the 2nd in our co-hosted webinar series on Caribbean-Africa Trade! The featured speakers for this second webinar “MSMEs, E-Commerce, Green Economy and Women in trade” will be Matthew Wilson (International Trade Centre) and Trudi Hartzenberg (Tralac). The event will be facilitated by Dr. Jan Yves Remy (SRC) and Khololefo Kugler (Trade Policy Exchange). See flyer above. Register for this and the upcoming webinars in the series here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Hea1Q608Qk-YPukG5lHCqQ. In case you missed the first webinar, watch the video recording here.
VIDEO LINK – Webinar 1: Caribbean-African Trade Webinar
Thank you to all who attended Webinar 1 in our Caribbean-Africa Trade Webinar series, which took place last week Tuesday, 22 June. In case you missed it, please see the video recording below: Remember that the registration link is the same for all the webinars! REGISTER HERE: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Hea1Q608Qk-YPukG5lHCqQ
New SRC Policy Brief on Investment and the SDGs
This brief authored by our trade researcher Alicia Nicholls is the first in the SRC’s new SDG & Trade Policy Brief series. It analyses the role that promoting and facilitating private domestic, foreign and diaspora investments, particularly in SDG-related sectors, could play in supplementing the SDG financing shortfall facing Caribbean small States. It does so against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic’s adverse impact on regional and international economies and societies, and the global decline in FDI flows. The Caribbean countries under study for the purposes of this Brief are the 14 independent Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The Brief may be downloaded here.
Caribbean-African Trade Webinar Series – June 22-July 22, 2021
The SRC is pleased to invite you to a webinar series we are co-hosting with Trapca, Tralac and Afronomiclaw entitled “Caribbean-African Trade Webinar Series“. The webinars will take place via Zoom over the period June 22, – July 22, 2021. To register for one or all of the webinars, please click here:https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Hea1Q608Qk-YPukG5lHCqQ.
The SRC congratulates Rebeca Grynspan on appointment as new UNCTAD SG
The SRC extends congratulations to Rebeca Grynspan of Costa Rica on her appointment as the next Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the first woman to be appointed to this position. Ms. Grynspan is an accomplished economist and former vice president of Costa Rica (1994-1998) and takes over from the equally distinguished, Isabelle Durant who has been acting SG since February 2021. Ms. Grynspan, who was nominated to the post by United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, was approved on June 11 by the UN General Assembly. The SRC wishes Ms. Grynspan every success during her tenure and looks forward to building on the strong relationship between our two institutions. Photo credit: The Ibero-American General Secretariat
The CARICOM Commission’s Report on the Economy: Time to Play Your Part!
Dr. Jan Yves Remy$*At the invitation of the Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, I recently participated in a vibrant session of the Caribbean Economic Forum entitled “Putting People at the Centre of Development in the Caribbean”. My fellow panelists – Professor Avinash Persaud and Dr. Damien King – were two…