WILLEMSTAD - The Four-Country Social Development & Labor Meeting, taking place on Friday at the Renaissance Hotel in Curaçao, focuses on a joint approach to poverty, labor market competition, migration policy, and differences in social welfare provisions in the four countries of the Kingdom.
Participants in the meeting include the ministers responsible for social affairs and labor from the four countries or their representatives.
The meeting will present and discuss the findings from the Minimum Social Report BES, as well as the themes from the recent conference on social security in St. Maarten.
Addressing the inequality in social welfare provisions on the islands and its impact on migration between the islands is also on the agenda. Discussions will revolve around how improved collaboration and new laws and regulations can help reduce the undesired migration expressed by Curaçao.
Moreover, there will be an examination of the collaboration between the National Institute for Budgetary Information, NIBUD, and the Caribbean islands. Curaçao has a cooperation agreement with NIBUD.
The goal of the meeting is to strengthen collaboration among the four countries in the field of social policy, reducing inequalities, and sharing and adopting successful projects.