Prepared for the ‘Rio Group’ of Latin American and Caribbean Countries during the period of Guyana’s chairmanship, the paper assesses existing asymmetries within the Latin and American region, focusing on those related to size and vulnerability, and discusses their implications. It reviews the treatment of asymmetries in global and regional trade arrangements; and suggests concrete [...]
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Edited version of a Keynote Address delivered at the Conference of the International Small Island Studies Association, Kinmen Island (Quemoy) Taiwan, November 4, 2004.
Do small islands have a future in a globalised world? This question is not as outrageous as it might sound. The economic viability, political integrity and even the physical survival of small [...]
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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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‘Globalisation’ in its ideological usage is the label employed for the post-Cold War, US-led project of the 1990s to organise the world according to the principles of neo-liberal economics…’counter-globalisation’ refers to critiques of market-oriented, corporate-led globalisation and to social movements that advocate alternative ways of managing national and international exchange…
From Globalisation: A Calculus of Inequality, edited by Dennis Benn and [...]
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Prepared withinin the framework of the Caribbean Regional Consultation on the UNESCO MOST Programme, the purpose of the paper is to suggest subject areas of research for coping with global change in its economic, technological and environmental dimensions. After discussing alternative ways of delimiting the Caribbean region, the paper identifies its main characteristics [...]
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The world financial crisis of 1997-1999 has had devastating economic and social consequences. As much as $ billion in output, or 1 percent of world GDP, has been lost in Indonesia, the proportion of people living in poverty increased from to percent in a single year, or insert million people. In Korea. In Thailand. In [...]
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