Caribbean Policy Development Centre

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Shantal Munro-Knight — 2008-07-08T14:16:24Z

The Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) has completed a major study on Foreign Direct Investment and Governance in the Caribbean. The study undertakes three country case studies in Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados.
This study seeks to examine the patterns of FDI flows and contribution of FDI to the economies under study; to examine the extent to which Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Codes of Conduct are effective mechanisms for enhancing the benefits of FDI; to (...)

Regional Civil Society Conference on the EPA, Trinidad & Tobago, June 13th , 2008

Shantal Munro-Knight — 2008-06-28T12:20:58Z

Representatives from regional civil society in the Caribbean gathered in Trinidad Friday June 13th , 2008 to review the current agreement with the view to making recommendations to policy makers on the way forward. The Meeting Report makes specific recommendations for the renegotiations of the EPA.

Regional Civil Society Petition on the EPA

Shantal Munro-Knight — 2008-06-28T11:26:50Z

Regional Civil Society in the Caribbean are hoping to stop the impending signing of the EPA. Sign onto this petition http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/epa and help us push for a more development friendly EPA.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/epa/

'Operation: Make It Fair!'

Ashley Payne — 2008-06-26T14:12:02Z

Caribbean NGOs are calling on international, hemispheric and regional civil society actors to support us in our campaign 'Operation: Make It Fair!'
OPERATION: MAKE IT FAIR! March 2006
Caribbean NGOs are calling on international, hemispheric and regional civil society actors to support us in our campaign Operation: Make It Fair! This is a call for governments and negotiators involved in the ongoing Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) negotiations to ensure true development outcomes. The (...)

CPDC Statement on Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)

Ashley Payne — 2008-06-26T14:05:01Z

The Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) will like to support the recent statement coming from the concerned group of Caribbean citizens, highlighting the concerns raised by President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
The CPDC is urging civil society to support the statement of the group of concerned academics and partners and to ensure that they continue to press for discussion at the national level .
The full text of President Jagdeo's speech (...)

Economic Partnership Agreement Text, Annex, Investment & Services

Ashley Payne — 2008-02-04T16:44:34Z

The EPA text was initialed by negotiators the end of 2007. Please see the attached annexes...

Economic Partnership Agreement between the Cariforum States, of the one part and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part

Ashley Payne — 2008-01-23T13:46:53Z

HAVING REGARD TO the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas establishing the Caribbean Community and Caribbean Single Market and Economy, the Treaty of Basseterre establishing the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States and the Agreement establishing a Free Trade Area between the Caribbean Community and the Dominican Republic, on the one part, and the Treaty establishing the European Community, on the other (...)

Implications of the Cariforum-EC EPA

Ashley Payne — 2008-01-22T13:11:48Z

The Cariforum-EC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is more than just a trade agreement: its scope embraces many subjects that have up to now been solely or mainly within national and regional jurisdiction (Box 1). As a legally binding international instrument with elaborate implementation and enforcement provisions, it embodies a far higher degree of supranational governance than the corresponding arrangements in the Caribbean (...)

CIVIL SOCIETY CONCERNS WITH EPA

Cheryl Sandiford — 2007-10-15T16:23:44Z

Civil Socity has been vociferous on their concerns regarding the Economic Partnership Agreements since the launch of the negotiations in 2005.

RALLY HELD IN ST. VINCENT & THE GRENADINES JUNE 2007

Cheryl Sandiford — 2007-05-22T16:59:51Z

CPDC and WINFA conducted a rally entitled 'Release the EPA Text'