Guyana

In 1992, the Carter Center's Global Development Initiative held its first Development Cooperation Forum, which explored how to enhance international trade, aid, agriculture, and other policies for development, especially for newly emerging democracies like Guyana.

Waging Peace

For much of the past decade, Guyana was a stable country that enjoyed high economic growth and declining poverty. This progress, though, was built upon weak democratic foundations, a fragile economic base, and underlying ethnic tensions between the Afro- and Indo-Guyanese communities. Unfortunately, these tensions have grown rather than abated. As a result, private investment has dried up, and emigration has accelerated. An interparty dialogue process between the major political parties broke down in March 2002 and again in 2003.

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