Hillside view of tropical city Port of Spain, Trinidad. It's time to start planning before urbanizing ... and today we tell you how to apply for an opportunity to investigate and deepen your knowledge on urban development. Cities are engines of economic, social and cultural growth, but they also present challenges for sustainable and integral development. The way cities … [Read more...] about Do you want to be part of the urban planning of Latin America and the Caribbean?
Economy & Investment
Shadow Economies and Data Quality: Consequences for Economic Planning and Management
by Mark D. Wenner and Dillon Clarke The terms “shadow,” “underground,” or “parallel” economies are interchangeable terms used to describe economic activities, legal and illegal, that are not registered in official estimates of gross domestic product (Smith, 1994, p. 18). See table below for what constitute shadow economic activities. … [Read more...] about Shadow Economies and Data Quality: Consequences for Economic Planning and Management
How does open data help the agricultural sector?
By Carmine Paolo De Salvo, Rachel Boyce, Ivette Fis de Melo Latin America and the Caribbean contribute 11% of the value of world food production and possess 24% of the arable land in the world. Open data is a powerful source of information that can help in making decisions and formulating policies to foster the development of the agricultural sector, and consequently to help … [Read more...] about How does open data help the agricultural sector?
“Fat Tax” – A Pause for Concern
A recent proposal for the introduction of a “fat tax” in Barbados has raised the noise level on the obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCD) debate in Barbados as well as health-related issues on a wider level. This debate has been largely emotional as the loudest voices at times ignored that the proposal was really for a tax on the foods that contribute to unhealthy living … [Read more...] about “Fat Tax” – A Pause for Concern
Three ways the Caribbean can strengthen financing for private companies
Growing up in The Bahamas, I remember my grandmother’s asue. There weren’t any banks where she lived on the island of Inagua, and even if there had been, it wasn’t customary for women to frequent them. To adapt, women (and sometimes men) formed their own informal savings groups, known as asues. As her group’s custodian, my grandmother collected a weekly contribution from … [Read more...] about Three ways the Caribbean can strengthen financing for private companies