2019 EDR Presentation in the Caribbean

CAF -Development Bank of Latin America- is pleased to invite to join the webinar flagship report presentation (RED) 2019: "Integrity in public policy: Keys to prevent corruption"

Event date:

December 02, 2020

Corruption has been one of the main concerns of our region for some time now. This is hardly a surprise, considering the signi­ficant negative effects that corruption has on development. It affects the productivity and economic growth of countries, it reduces the capacity of the State to provide public goods and services, and it can weaken society’s trust in institutions.

Recent scandals have led to a resurgence of the issue, and currently the fi­ght against corruption is a central point of public debate in Latin America and the Caribbean. With this report, CAF contributes to the ongoing reform agenda in order to promote integrity in public policies. The study covers different areas of action, including the functioning of control and oversight instances within the state; the importance of electoral and civil service systems to attract independent and honest public offi­cials; the role of transparency initiatives and citizen control; and the strengthening of institutional and legal frameworks to limit the influence of private interests in public policy decisions.

Date:  December 2nd, 2020

Time:

09h00  Jamaica, Eastern Standard Time
10h00  Barbados, Eastern Daylight Time, Trinidad and Tobago 

Streaming will be available on this webpage

speakers

The Honourable Colm Imbert

The Honourable Colm Imbert

Minister of Finance, Trinidad and Tobago

The Honourable Marsha Caddle

The Honourable Marsha Caddle

M.P., Minister in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Investment, Barbados

Barbados

Pablo Sanguinetti

Pablo Sanguinetti

Vice President of Knowledge, CAF –Development Bank of Latin America-

Gustavo Fajardo

Gustavo Fajardo

Principal Economist - CAF - development bank of Latin America

Gianpiero Leoncini

Gianpiero Leoncini

Vicepresidente Ejecutivo de CAF

The Honourable Colm Imbert

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The Honourable Colm Imbert

Minister of Finance, Trinidad and Tobago

Registered Engineer with two degrees in Civil Engineering and two postgraduate degrees in Law. He has over 40 years’ experience in the construction industry. To date, he has served as an elected PNM Member of Parliament for 29 continuous years and as a Cabinet Minister in six PNM Governments for an aggregate Cabinet experience of over 18 years.  He has served as Minister of Works and Transport; Minister of Local Government; Minister of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education; Minister of Health; and Minister of Finance. After the PNM’s victory at the General Election in 2020, he was reappointed as Minister of Finance.  

The Honourable Marsha Caddle

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The Honourable Marsha Caddle

M.P., Minister in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Investment, Barbados

Barbados

Marsha K. Caddle is a Barbadian development economist, politician, and current Cabinet Minister. Her areas of specialization are institutional and human development economics, including governance, financing for development and poverty, inequality, social protection and labour markets. She has worked as a Governance Specialist, International Development Agency; and is a former Programme Manager, Poverty Reduction - United Nations Development Programme. After successfully contesting the St. Michael South Central seat for the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) in the 2018 general election, she was appointed Minister in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Investment in the Mia Mottley Administration.

Pablo Sanguinetti

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Pablo Sanguinetti

Vice President of Knowledge, CAF –Development Bank of Latin America-

He has a Ph.D. and a Master's in Economics from the University of California, and a Master's in Economics from Instituto Torcuato Di Tella. Currently, he works as a professor of Economics at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. His research interests are in the areas of foreign trade and integration, economic development, and fiscal federalism. Previously, he was a researcher and visiting professor at the University of New Mexico, the University of Texas (A&M), and the University of Bonn. He has been a member of LARR (Latin America Research Review) and has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and CAF-development bank of Latin America. He has also been member of the board of the National Commission of Foreign Trade of Argentina. view publications

Gustavo Fajardo

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Gustavo Fajardo

Principal Economist - CAF - development bank of Latin America

Ph.D. in Economics at the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies - CEMFI (Spain). Master in Economics from the same university. Degree in Economics from the University of Carabobo (Venezuela). His research interests are in the areas of political economy, migration and economic development. View publications

Gianpiero Leoncini

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Gianpiero Leoncini

Vicepresidente Ejecutivo de CAF

Ha tenido un destacado desempeño en CAF durante los últimos 14 años, en los cuales ocupó las posiciones de Ejecutivo Principal y Ejecutivo Senior en el área de Secretaría y Relaciones Externas; Director de Secretaría y Relaciones Externas; Representante de CAF en Trinidad y Tobago; y Asesor de la Vicepresidencia Ejecutiva. Antes de vincularse a CAF, ejerció importantes cargos como Jefe de Gabinete del Secretario General y como Oficial de la Dirección General de Asuntos Políticos y Sociales en la Secretaría General de la Comunidad Andina. Es Licenciado en Ciencias Políticas con especialización en Relaciones Internacionales por el Instituto de Estudios Políticos de París y cuenta con una Maestría en Administración Pública en la Escuela Nacional de Administración (ENA), Francia.