by Andrea | Dec 31, 2011 | new ways to finance business, small business financing, Trade and Development
“Never in history have so many nations owed so much money with so little promise of repayment,” wrote Time Magazine in the mid-1980s. Total world debt soared from approximately $100 billion in the early 1970s to nearly $900 billion dollars by the mid-1980s. (Origins...
by Andrea | Dec 19, 2011 | small business financing, Trade and Development, world financial crisis
To no one’s surprise, the Ministerial Conference of WTO Ministers concluded on Saturday, December 17th without any breakthroughs on any of the contentious issues facing the organization (see Day One Highlight). Instead, the meeting concluded with a Chair’s Summary...
by Andrea | Dec 17, 2011 | small business financing, Trade and Development, world financial crisis
• Day Two of the Ministerial (December 16th, 2011) saw the continuation of plenary sessions during which other members made their own statements regarding the issues facing the WTO. • The plenary also approved accession of the Russian Federation to the WTO. The more...
by Andrea | Dec 16, 2011 | small business financing, Trade and Development
The Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is the organization’s highest decision-making body and convenes every two (2) years. An issue of key concern for this 8th Ministerial is the future of the Doha Development Round which is now openly...
by Andrea | Jun 17, 2011 | small business financing, Trade and Development, World Trade Organization
President Obama has designated June as Caribbean-American Heritage month. This seems the appropriate time to examine the status of US-Caribbean trade relations. The following is a background brief prepared for the Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS) 13th annual...
by Andrea | Jul 31, 2010 | CSME, Recent Trends in Trade, small business financing, Trade and Development, US-Caribbean trade
On Tuesday, June 8th 2010, the government of Trinidad & Tobago stopped Jamaican artiste “Ding Dong” from entering the country to perform. He was deemed a ‘threat to society’. In March 2010, the highly anticipated performances in Barbados of Jamaican artistes...
