Hopper Lecture 2025 - Fostering Societal Growth
Fostering Societal Growth: Exploring How Inclusion Drives the Development Agenda
In 2025, Barbados enacted the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, which came just three months after the government introduced a seven-year policy aimed at addressing the needs of persons with disabilities. As contemporary development faces social, economic, political, and environmental challenges, it is essential for any society striving to achieve its goals to vigorously promote the inclusion of all its members.
All persons with disabilities need a space in which...