ECLAC underscores regional integration as key to development

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says regional integration is key to development, as delegates discussed the medium-term challenges and the shaping of a post-2015 development agenda in the Caribbean.
During the Sixteenth Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of ECLAC’s Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC), executive secretary Alicia Bárcena said that the report of the United Nations High-level Panel to advise on the global development framework beyond 2015 -the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - provides “useful guidelines for rethinking development.
“It moves beyond the MDGs by stressing the need to integrate economic, social and environmental aspects of development into a coherent strategy,” she said, adding “the Caribbean has been part of a number of parallel processes at the international level that will inform the sustainable development agenda.