Sep 30
Panel on Regional Integration, Conference on Economic Growth and Transformation, in honour of Professor Alfred Francis, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Department of Economics, UWI, Mona, Jamaica, September 30, 2007
Discusses the limitations of the Caricom integration project that arise from:
- The reliance on market mechanisms to achieve its economic objectives
- Its emphasis on the economic apsect of integration
- Its reliance on inter-governmental cooperation as the preferred mode of implementing decisions
- Its being undertaken mainly in response to external pressure
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Is Caricom losing speed? Ricky Singh, Jamaica Observer, 23/03/08
Sep 29
Prepared for OECD Development Forum Informal Experts’ Workshop on ‘Ownership in Practice’ Paris, September 27-28, 2007’,
Northern domination of the development knowledge industry fundamentally contradicts ‘home-grown solutions and ownership’. Home-grown solutions must mean local generation of knowledge and of policy interventions that are specific to the local environment and acceptance of, and commitment to, responsibility for implementation. Development should be oriented to this model. To this end, concrete proposals are put forward.
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Sep 27
In this briefing note, prepared for a meeting of the Joint EU-ACP Parliamentary Assembly held on September 27, 2007, the CRNM outlined the state of the Cariforum EPA negotiations, the matter of the ‘development dimension’ and the remaining outstanding issues. It concludes that ’strategic considerations as opposed to mechanical adherence to the WTO imposed deadline provide a…compelling motivation for CARIFORUM’s interest in completing the negotiations on schedule… It remains the RNM’s view that failure to demonstrate a willingness to complete the negotiations by the end of 2007 would remove the “incentive” the EC to meet CARIFORUM’s pro-developmental demands…
Click here for CRNM Briefing Note to the JPA
Sep 21
NORMAN GIRVAN**
Instituto de Estudios de Posgrado de Relaciones Internacionales Universidad de West Indies, recinto de St. Augustine, Trinidad y Tobago
El pensamiento de la dependencia en el Caribe anglófono surgió a principios del periodo poscolonial. Atribuía los
problemas del desarrollo a la continuada dependencia económica, cultural y epistemológica de la región con respecto al mundo metropolitano, y reclamaba que la descolonización se extendiera a estas otras esferas. La dependencia fue un elemento significativo en la radicalización ideológica y política en las décadas de 1960
y 1970, y generó un gran debate académico y muchas evaluaciones críticas. Su influencia disminuyó a partir de los años ochenta, pero recientemente ha concitado un interés renovado, producto de la crítica a la globalización neoliberal. La escuela de pensamiento sobre la dependencia no era monolítica; más bien mostraba considerable diversidad en cuanto a metodología, temas y contenido prescriptivo. Este artículo se ocupa de cuatro corrientes principales, interrelacionadas, del pensamiento dependentista:
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Sep 06
Prospects for Jamaica’s Political Economy. New York: The Institute for Caribbean Education and Culture, 1985. pp. 24.
Sep 06
Copper in Chile: A Study in Conflict between Corporate and National Economy. Mona: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1972, pp. 86.
Sep 06
The Caribbean Bauxite Industry: The Scope for Rationalization and Regional Collaboration. Mona: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1967, pp. 45.
Sep 06
Working Together for Development: D.T.M. Girvan on Cooperative and Community Development, 1939 - 1968. Kingston: Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1993. pp. 424
Sep 06
(With George Beckford) Development in Suspense: Selected Papers and Proceedings of the First Conference of Caribbean Economists. Kingston, Jamaica: Association of Caribbean Economists and Friederick Ebert Stiftung, 1988.
