Enhancing CARICOM Competitiveness: Can the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) and the EU-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Facilitate This Process?

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Abstract

On January 30, 2006 heads of government of six1 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries signed the protocol for implementation of the Caribbean Single Market (CSM). The realization of this seamless regional market, which facilitates the free movement of goods, services, capital and labour, has been heralded as the first tangible step towards a fully functioning Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) in 2008.