Lecture delivered at Public Forum on the Post Colonial Ecnomy and Society, Kingstown, St Vincent anf the Grenadines, February 12, 2008.
The basis of colonial economy and society was the disempowerment of the majority of the population. Accordingly, the basis of the post colonial economy and society must be the self-empowerment of the population by meams [...]
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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.
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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.
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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 [...]
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Report approved at the 28th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community in July 2007 as ‘the framework for the development of the Community’.
CONTENTS Introductory Note/Mission Statement/I. Scope And Development Vision/II. Sectoral Economic Drivers Of Regional Development/III. Enabling Environment: Economic Policy Harmonisation/IV. Enabling Environment: Social And Institutional Structures /V. Sequencing [...]
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Report Prepared for the XIX Summit of the Rio Group, Georgetown, Guyana, February 2007
With respect to small countries, particularly those in the CARICOM grouping, the Technical Working Group generated a large number of suggested measures and actions. Proposals for the consideration of the Summit should consist of a practical and immediate steps [...]
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Discusses the meaning and limitations of the concept of production integration in Caricom as represented by the Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME). Noting that it has been customary to focuse on production integration in goods; the paper first examines trade and macroeconomic trends in Caricom economies and argues that this has been taking place. [...]
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The Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME) aims to create a single economic space among the 15 member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). As a grouping of small states , CARICOM sees the CSME as a key instrument in responding to the challenges of economic globalisation. The CSME is meant to stimulate and facilitate [...]
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Discusses the experience of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) as a case study of regional cooperation among developing countries in response to the challenges of globalisation. The ACS was launched in 1994 with membership of the countries of the ‘Greater Caribbean’ region. It evolved a system of functional cooperation in intra- and extra-regional relations [...]
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Brief analysis of the Cuba’s relations with the countries of the Greater Caribbean from the early 1970s, focusing on the period since the end of the Cold War. Provides statistics on the development of political and economic relations and technical cooperation since the early 1990s; and on Cuba’s participation in the activities of the Association [...]
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