Indeed, economists have demonstrated that trade between two people can be beneficial even if one of them is more skilled than the other at every task, so long as the more-skilled person specializes in those tasks at which he or she is relatively more productive. What applies to individuals applies to nations as well.
This process has to be vigorously driven by three fundamental programmes, namely •  public sector modernization at the national and regional levels  •  private sector development, and  •  financial sector development  The integration model, as characterized by the original Treaty of Basseterre, has worked for the OECS region but it is also fair to say that it has not been fully exploited.