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• Author: Noel Cowell/Clement Branche
• Pages: 16-18

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BEC Barbados Employers Confederation

BIMAP Barbados Institute of Management and Productivity

BITU Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (Jamaica)

BNPC Barbados National Productivity Council

BWU Barbados Workers’ Union

CAP Corporate Assignment Program (Statistics Canada)

CARICOM Caribbean Community

CCL Caribbean Congress of Labour

CEDAW Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of

Discrimination Against Women

CEE Common Entrance Examination

CPS Contraceptive Prevalence Survey

CSEC Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate

CWR company-wide registration

CXC Caribbean Examination Council

DRI direct reduced iron

ESL Essential Ser vices Law (Jamaica)

ESOP Employee Stock Ownership Plan

ETRPA Employment Termination and Redundancy Payments Act

(Jamaica)

EU European Union

FDI Foreign Direct Investment

FTAA Free Trade Area of the Americas

GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GDP Gross Domestic Product

GIIC Global Information Infrastructure Commission

GNP Gross National Product

HCWS high commitment work systems

IADB Inter-American Development Bank

ICFTU International Confederation of Free Trade Unions

ICT information and communications technology

IDT Industrial Disputes Tribunal

ILO International Labour Organisation

IMAJ Incorporated Master builders’ Association of Jamaica

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