13.1 Each Protocol Member State shall participate in the setting of both general and specific developmental objectives which arise from the OECS Development Strategy and OECS Development Charter.
13.2 The general objectives, which cover the five areas identified by the Authority of Heads of Government of the Member States of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States under the Treaty of Basseterre 1981 at that Authority's Special Meeting of October 2002, comprising —
(a) economic transformation;
(b) growth;
(c) employment;
(d) poverty reduction; and
(e) attainment of the appropriate levels measured by Human Development Indices as set by the United Nations;
shall be pursued by Protocol Member States in relation to targets to be set by the OECS Authority on an annual basis.
13.3 This pursuit shall be linked to the harmonisation, consistent with the status of an Economic Union, of the following policy programme areas —
(a) fiscal;
(b) monetary;
(c) trade;
(d) international economic relations;
(e) incomes;
(f) structural;
(g) social;
(h) environmental; and
(i) other programme areas as identified by the OECS Authority.
13.4 In further pursuit of these objectives, Protocol Member States agree to co-ordinate policies towards —
(a) the harmonious and optimal development of the following sectors —
(i) agriculture,
(ii) manufacturing,
(iii) tourism,
(iv) services,
(v) construction,
(vi) information and communications technology,
(vii) education, and
(viii) health;
(b) the mobilisation, development and efficient allocation of labour across the Economic Union through education and skill training arrangements, and the creation of an Economic Union wide labour market;
(c) the development, creation and establishment of Research, Development and Management Centres within the Economic Union to facilitate the international competitiveness of industries and firms; and
(d) the development, integration and regulation of money and capital markets within the Economic Union to optimise the mobilisation of savings and their most efficient allocation to the sectors, industries and firms which will facilitate the growth and development of the Economic Union.