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Caribbean Politics Specialist Group Events

The CPSG was pleased to be associated with the following event which took place on 12 July at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies

“International Competitiveness of Small Vulnerable Economies” Seminar
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London
Thursday 12 July 2007

Programme

9:30 – 10:15: Welcome by Dr Densil Williams and Keynote Address
Title: International Competitiveness: The Challenges for Small Vulnerable Economies

• His Excellency the Honourable Burchell Whiteman, O.J. Jamaican High Commissioner to the United Kingdom

10:15 – 10:30: Coffee Break

10.30 – 12.00: Session One (Chair: Densil Williams)
Topic: Trade and International Competitiveness

• Densil Williams (UWI, Mona) – Export marketing strategies of small locally – owned firms: Can these lead to international competitiveness?
• Lindsay Stirton (University of East Anglia) – Governance and competitiveness in the Commonwealth Caribbean
• Roli Degazon-Johnson (Commonwealth Secretariat) – Trade in the highly skilled – the Commonwealth Caribbean experience
• J. Martin Dalgleish (UWI, St Augustine) – Management: The starting point for competitiveness?

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:30: Session Two (Chair: Peter Clegg)
Topic: The international political economy of Caribbean competitiveness

• William Vlcek (ICS, London) – Competitive or coercive? The experience of Caribbean offshore financial centres with global governance
• Paul Sutton (University of Hull) – The case for a regional development state to improve competitiveness, diplomacy and governance in the Commonwealth Caribbean
• Sir Ronald Sanders (Business consultant and former Caribbean diplomat) – Caribbean competitiveness and foreign intervention: the cases of Venezuela, China and Taiwan
• Peter Clegg (UWE, Bristol) – The Commonwealth Caribbean and the challenges of institutional exclusion

2:30 – 2:45: Coffee Break

2:45- 4:00: Panel discussion and launch of project idea (Chair: Andy Williams)
Topic: Can small vulnerable economies become internationally competitive?

• Amanda Sives (University of Liverpool)
• Kevin Barker (Birkbeck College, London)
• Gordon Baker (Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House) (TBC)

4:00 – 5:00: Cocktail reception

Thank you to the Caribbean Politics Group of the Political Studies Association, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, The Round Table, Taylor and Francis Group, and the University of the West of England, Bristol for supporting this event.