Official Meetings

Agenda

24 February 2014

8:00 – 8:30 REGISTRATION

8:30 – 8:45 OPENING SESSION

•Speech by the Secretary-General of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), Ambassador Alfonso Múnera.

•Speech by the Permanent Secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), Ambassador Roberto Guarnieri.

8:45 – 9:30 SESSION I: Debt burden and fiscal sustainability in Caribbean countries.

Moderator: Representative of the ACS

Presentation of the base document of the Permanent Secretariat of SELA, “Debt Burden and Fiscal Sustainability in the Caribbean Region”.

•Dr. Víctor Olivo, Consultant-researcher.

9:30– 11:00 SESSION II: National experience for overcoming debt burden

Moderator: Representative of SELA

•Representative of Saint Kitts and Nevis

•Representative of Jamaica

•Representative of Grenada

•Representative of Barbados

•Representative of Guatemala

11:00 – 11:30 General debate (Sessions I-II)

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break

11:45– 12:30 SESSION III: Fiscal adjustment and economic growth: regional perspective

Moderator: Representative of the ACS

•Representative of CARICOM

•Representative of ECLAC

•Representative of the Caribbean Development Bank - CDB

•Representative of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

12:30 – 13:00

General debate

13:00 – 14:30

Free time for lunch

Afternoon

14:30 – 16:30 SESSION IV: Fiscal adjustment and economic growth: multilateral perspective

Moderator: Representative of SELA

•Representative of UNCTAD

•Representative of the Inter-American Development Bank – IADB

•Representative of the World Bank

•Representative of the International Monetary Fund – IMF

•Representative of the G24 Secretariat

16:30 – 17:00 General debate

17:00 – 17:15 Coffee break

17:15 – 17:45 Conclusions and recommendations

17:45 – 18:00 CLOSING SESSION

•Speech by the Permanent Secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), Ambassador Roberto Guarnieri.

•Speech by the Secretary-General of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), Ambassador Alfonso Múnera.