Four questions for regional integration

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 [...]

‘Home Grown Solutions and Ownership’ in Development

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, [...]

El Pensamiento De La Dependencia En El Caribe Anglófono

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 [...]

Prospects for Jamaica’s Political Economy

Prospects for Jamaica’s Political Economy. New York: The Institute for Caribbean Education and Culture, 1985. pp. 24.

Copper in Chile

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.

The Caribbean Bauxite Industry.

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.

Working Together for Development: D.T.M. Girvan on Cooperative and Community Development, 1939 - 1968

Working Together for Development: D.T.M. Girvan on Cooperative and Community Development, 1939 - 1968. Kingston: Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1993. pp. 424

Development in Suspense: Selected Papers and Proceedings of the First Conference of Caribbean Economists

(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.