These are the ECCB Debt, Growth and Development Task Force, the World Bank’s Caribbean Growth Forum, and the IMF’s Group on Small States. We need champions. The UWI is one such regional champion and well positioned to drive the knowledge and innovation-based model of growth which Principal Sankat spoke about in his welcoming remarks.
Trinidad and Tobago is another such champion, over the last two years, we have been actively championing the case for small states in the halls of international financial community. We are now seeing a new awakening and awareness of this issue from global policymakers, especially at the IMF and the G-20 Presidency.