Region’s ‘middle income’ classification a misnomer – Todd tells ECLAC forum

Hugh Todd

Guyana is advocating an urgent re-think of what Foreign Minister Hugh Todd on Monday told the Thirty-eighth Session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) are the “skewed criteria” which he said had been applied in “graduating” countries to middle-income status and which have now come back to haunt some “deserving countries from accessing much needed assistance to fight to overcome vulnerabilities, and in the process establish their resilience.”