The Caribbean Growth Forum (CGF) was thus designed to respond to these concerns: to be both a forum of dialogue to identify needed reforms, and a catalyst for the implemen¬tation of agreed reform priorities, creating the needed accelerators to make reforms happen, while keeping in mind the...

The rationale of this paper lies in the fact that the areas of emigration are either generally deprived in terms of basic infrastructures, roads, markets, credit and technologies, or the infrastructure can be present but there is a lack of entrepreneurial spirit, weak institutions, and a lack of...

The rationale of this paper lies in the fact that the areas of emigration are either generally deprived in terms of basic infrastructures, roads, markets, credit and technologies, or the infrastructure can be present but there is a lack of entrepreneurial spirit, weak institutions, and a lack of...

The paper focuses on the manufacturing sector of 10 Mediterranean Partners, in particular on the industrial structures and their relationship with the market. The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, and in particular the project of the free trade area, is placing the North-South relationship in a...

Italy is far from implementing a development friendly migration policy. Resources are mainly used to curb illegal migration, repatriate clandestine migrants and manage illegal flows. In some cases this approach has been quite successful, as for example with Albania, while in other cases this has...

Ecuador is a country with a large cultural, ethnic, climatic and geographical diversity. With about 12.1 million people, according to the latest census of 2001, it is the second smallest Latin American country. Increasing poverty (from 3.5 to 5.3 million people during the period between the last...

In the current European Union (EU) debate on migration despite the positive linkage between Migration and Development gaining momentum, emphasis is still greater on how to guarantee borders security and curb irregular migration. This is possibly due also to the lack of concrete indications on...

November 1995 marked the starting point of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (the Barcelona Process), a wide framework of political, economic and cultural cooperation between the Member States of the European Union and the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Basin countries. The recent...

November 1995 marked the starting point of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (the Barcelona Process), a wide framework of political, economic and cultural cooperation between the Member States of the European Union and the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Basin countries. The recent...