Overview of resources on Caribbean integration and the CSME for teachers, researchers, journalists, businesspeople and others who want to say current on Caricom. Comments and suggestions are especially welcome.
Last updated October 18, 2007
Keynote Address at Caribbean Studies Symposium, University of Puerto Rico, October 25, 2007
The Caribbean is not a cohesive political or economic grouping. Yet the notion of a Caribbean region continues to have salience and resonance because of a sense of shared history and culture and shared characteristics in the relationship with metropolitan powers and metroplitan capital.
Prepared as part of a North-South Institute (Ottawa) project, this paper discusses the reform of the international development architecture within an analytical framework of power imbalances and development knowledge hierarchies. It argues for a context-specific and locally driven approach to development, with the knowledge empowerment of the South playing a central role. Hierarchies should be inverted so that the international development architecture becomes South-driven and North-supported. Development cooperation should recognize diversity, accept policy heterodoxy, and be oriented to support building endogenous Southern capabilities in development knowledge.
