Statistics crucial to deploying scarce resources

There is no doubt that statistics are an indispensable input in the planning, guiding and monitoring of our development objectives.  Moreover, at a time of unprecedented economic challenges to the Caribbean Community where development is constrained by the very limited resources, statistics are crucial to determining how these resources are best deployed.

The importance of statistics is duly recognised as a key cross-cutting aspect of The Caribbean Community Five-Year Strategic Plan 2015-2019: Reposition CARICOM, which was approved last July by our Heads of Government.  Statistics have a vital role to play in its roll-out as evidenced-based policy-making and the measurement of results are instrumental in making a success of the Plan.

– Amb. Colin Granderson, Assistant Secretary-General, Foreign and Community Relations, CARICOM Secretariat

Read more here: Remarks by ASG Granderson 27 Oct 2014