A household survey commissioned by Caribbean governments in April 2020 to explore the impact of the pandemic on regional food security revealed that global border closures increased barriers to food security by augmenting food prices and decreasing income and employment levels. The survey data also revealed that more than half of all respondents experienced income or job loss.
The impact of international border closures on food security
Tourism supports a large percentage of economic activity in the Caribbean. International border closures, which prompted the near-total shutdown of air and cruise travel to curb the spread of COVID-19, dealt a catastrophic blow to the Caribbean’s tourism industry.
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XXXIII Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, one of the main forums of reference for discussing issues related to the public finances of Latin American and Caribbean countries, concluded this Friday, April 23, with three webinars featuring prominent specialists who debated matters of financing for development, tax evasion and illicit flows, as well as climate finance.
The final day of the seminar – which has served for 33 years as a high-level, multilateral regional space for exchanging opinions about the region’s macroeconomic and fiscal policies and challenges – began with a webinar entitled “Financing challenges for sustaining an expansive fiscal policy and expanding fiscal space for a transformative recovery in middle-income countries,” in which the speakers included Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); Stephany Griffith-Jones, of Columbia University (United States); Mark Plant, Co-Director of D
ECLAC Economic Commission for Latin America and : Experts Stress the Need to Create a New Financing Model, at the Conclusion of the Thirty-Third Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy
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XXXIII Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, one of the main forums of reference for discussing issues related to the public finances of Latin American and Caribbean countries, concluded this Friday, April 23, with three webinars featuring prominent specialists who debated matters of financing for development, tax evasion and illicit flows, as well as climate finance. The final day of the seminar - which has served for 33 years as a high-level, multilateral regional space for exchanging opinions about the region s macroeconomic and fiscal policies and challenges - began with a webinar entitled Financing challenges for sustaining an expansive fiscal policy and expanding fiscal space for a transformative recovery in middle-income count
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Write a report on the debate topic on Gender role discrimination in the workplace in contemporary Caribbean society can only be described as a thing of the past.
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Introduction
Judges, Moderator, Miss Indira Rampersad, members of the opposition, fellow members of the proposition, audience, all. Good night. Today I stand to commerce my teams argument which we strongly agree that “Gender Role Discrimination” in the workplace in contemporary Caribbean Society can only be described as a thing of the past. We the affirmative team believe that the statement is nothing but the truth!
Firstly, we would like to thank our opponents for helping us with making our case. My group members and I strongly hold the view that gender role discrimination in the workplace in contemporary Caribbean is a thing of the past. Thus, gender segregation and education arguments presented by the opposing side will be closely scrutinized.
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Escazú Agreement Enters into Force in Latin America and Caribbean on International Mother Earth Day
On the day of celebrations organized by ECLAC, the region’s countries reaffirmed the importance of the first regional environmental treaty and their commitment to protecting the planet and the people who defend it.
The States Parties to the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean – known as the Escazú Agreement – celebrated the treaty’s entry into force this Thursday, April 22, on precisely the same date on which International Mother Earth Day is commemorated.