Jun 02
A retrospective evaluation of nine years of the Association of Caribbean Economists prepared for an ACE retreat in June 1996.
ACE the Association of Caribbean Economists was founded in the mid 1980s, at the height of the neoliberal resurgence . ACE’s founding mission was to critique structural adjustment, and to formulate alternative, people oriented development strategies for the Caribbean. Pan Caribbean cooperation across language areas and political systems/status would be a means to this end..
Jun 01
Prepared for ACE retreat, Tobago, June 1-2, 1996
The ACE mission and its roots
ACE–the Association of Caribbean Economists–was founded in the mid-1980s, at the height of the neoliberal resurgence. ACE’s founding mission was to critique structural adjustment, and to formulate alternative, people-oriented development strategies for the
Caribbean. Pan-Caribbean cooperation–across language areas and political system-status–would be a means to this end. The ACE Constitution defines its objectives as promoting professional exchange and collaboration amongst the region’s economists to the end of contributing to the “economic development and sovereignty of the peoples and states of the Caribbean, and to economic cooperation and integration within the
Caribbean region”. I argue in this paper that this mission remains highly relevant in the mid 1990s, although the specific concerns and modalities of our work may change.
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