ECCB 2014-2015 Annual Report and Statement of Accounts

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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.

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ECCB ANNUAL REPORT 2014/2015