ECCB
ANNUAL REPORT 2014/2015
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other. It also provided them with information and
skills geared at preparing them for the secondary
school environment; sharpening their social skills and
enhancing their knowledge of the ECCU financial
system.
The Mentorship Programme is executed in one primary
school in each of the eight ECCB member countries.
Officers from the ECCB along with guest facilitators
engaged over 800 students and their teachers weekly
in discussions and interactive activities related to
general financial and economic concepts.
News Releases and Other Publications
As part of its annual agenda, the Bank provided
information to the public on its activities, policies
and programmes through the dissemination of news
releases, events for the media and the publication of
the monthly newsletter “Your Financial News”. Some
of the articles addressed cyber security, business
networking and the development of a competitive
workforce.
Community Outreach
The key goal of the Bank’s community outreach
programme efforts is to foster development within the
sub-region through capacity building, collaboration
and information sharing.
Dr Peter Blair Henry Delivering the 19
th
Sir Arthur Lewis
Memorial Lecture on 5 November 2014
19
th
Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Lecture
Dr Peter Blair Henry, Dean of New York University’s
Leonard N Stern School of Business presented the
19
th
Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Lecture at the Sir
Cecil Jacobs Auditorium, ECCB Headquarters on
5 November 2014.
Dr Henry holds a PhD in economics and served as a
consultant to the Governors of the Bank of Jamaica
and the ECCB. His research at the ECCB contributed
to the intellectual foundation for establishing the first
securities exchange in the ECCU Area.
Dr Henry spoke on the theme: “Capital and Labour
in the 21
st
Century: A Cautionary Tale.” He focused
on the on-going relevance of Sir Arthur Lewis’s work
as it relates to labour in the 21
st
century and the two
simultaneous, but otherwise seemingly unrelated,
trends: the coming boom in the working age population
of developing countries and creeping anti-capitalist
sentiment.
