As I have emphasized at the other launches which I attended in St Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia and St Kitts and Nevis, there are two critical elements of the approach being used for the Growth Forum which have been of great value in and of themselves: 1.
The bringing together of a wide cross section of the stakeholders in the growth agenda to discuss ideas and exchange knowledge in a structured setting, and  2. The methodology which is being used to conduct the discussions. As I reflect on the situation in which we now find ourselves, we must place ourselves in two planes: 1.