Conference Proceedings
Thursday 13th October 2016
Feature Speaker – Dr. Terrence Farrell, Chairman of the Economic Development Advisory Board
SESSION 1: ARMCHAIR DISCUSSION : Review of the Economy through National, Regional and International Lenses
Chair - Mr. Ewart Williams
Mr. Ewart Williams – Honorary Fellow, Department of Economics
Mr. Hayden Blades - Business Insight Limited
Mr. Sheldon Mclean - Inter-American Development Bank
Session 2: Education and Human Resource Development
Chair – Dr. Daren Conrad
Beverly-Anne Carter - On ‘two-legged’ dictionaries and other insights from the Language and Competitiveness Project
Henry H. Bailey & Balraj Kistow - Education, Diversification and Development Challenges For Trinidad and Tobago: Insights from a study that combines data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor database and the Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum for Trinidad and Tobago.
Roger Hosein, Bhoendradatt Tewarie and Daren Conrad – Elements of the Design of an Income Contingent loan for a Small Petroleum Exporting but Resource Depleting Economy
Session 3: Diversification within the Energy Sector
Chair – Dr. Lester Henry
Regan Deonanan and Benjamin Ramkissoon - Energy consumption and economic development in Caribbean SIDS: Are there causal links?
Edward Bahaw and Sherry Ann S. Ganase - Downstream Natural Gas Plant Portfolio Selection Criteria in Trinidad and Tobago: Net back Gas Price, Efficiency, Value Added and Employment
Preeya Mohan, Patrick Watson and Eric Strobl - Knowledge Intensive Business Services Firms in the Oil and Gas Sector in Trinidad and Tobago
Session 4: Diversification in the Service Sector including Financial Services
Chair – Dr. Anthony Birchwood
Netty-Ann Gordon - The Casino and Gaming Industry in Trinidad and Tobago: Employment, Revenue, Regulation and Crime
Gerard Greene and Jamila Greene - Diplomacy and Diversification: A Tool for the Expansion of the Creative and Cultural Industries of Trinidad and Tobago
Stephen O’Neil Ramdewar - Financing for SMEs in the ECCU region: An Empirical Investigation into the Constraints of SME Financing
Friday 14th October 2016
Session 5: Trade and Development
Chair – Dr. Kevin Williams
Mary K King, St. Clair A King, Brian Copeland, and Ronald DeFour - The management of the diversification of T&T's economy in the context of innovation in the ensuing industrial revolution
Roger Hosein, Jeetendra Khadan, and Nirvana Satnarine-Singh - Export Led Growth in the Caribbean: Evidence from a panel cointegration assessment
Rebecca Gookool and Roger Hosein - Welfare Considerations of the Economic
Partnership Agreement: A CARIFORUM Perspective
Session 6: Agriculture Sector Development
Chair – Dr. Regan Deonanan
Chaney C.G St. Martin, Roxanne Brizan-St. Martin and Mario Lewis - Agricultural diversification in a circular economy: building business-technology models for the transformation of agricultural waste into useful products
Vassal Stewart – How the Agriculture Sector can diversify the Economy
Afiya De Sormeaux and Sharon D. Hutchinson - Fostering Agricultural Development by Reducing Vulnerabilities
Omardath Maharaj - Can we turn agriculture and fisheries into our new oil and gas?
Session 7: ARMCHAIR DISCUSSION: Diversification the Way Forward
Chair: Prof. Patrick Watson
Prof Ann-Marie Bissessar
Mr. Gregory McGuire
Ms. Catherine Kumar
