Sir George Alleyne, Chancellor of the Universirty of the West Indies, presents the Degree of Doctor of Laws , Honoris Causa to Ambassador Havelock Brewster at the UWI Mona Campus on November 7, 2008. Following is Ambassador Brewster’s address to the Graduating Class.
Forty years ago, (the work of UWI social scientists) was greeted not [...]
Filed under: Caribbean Integration, Caribbean Thought, Power and Knowledge, Havelock Brewster's Papers |
Keynote Address, Conference on “Reinventing the Political Economy Tradition of the Caribbean”, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indes, Mona, Jamaica, March 26, 2008.
Dr. Tandon is Executive Director of the South Centre
In this lecture I focus on what may not be common knowledge among young intellectuals…those who come from an [...]
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Distinguished Lecture, Year of Sir Arthur Lewis, UWI, St Augustine, February 20, 2008
Sir Arthur Lewis was a man of this time in his anti-imperialism, his nationalism, his regionalism… his conviction that what matters is to make the best use of one’s own resources, his theories of economic development for poor countries…he was ahead of his [...]
Filed under: Caribbean Thought, Power and Knowledge, Tributes to Caribbean Thinkers |
The best arena for bringing pressure to bear on Caricom countries, to suspend the signing of the EPA in order to provide an opportunity for a full and public review of the Agreement and its possible implications for the region, is the national one….
Read Mervyn’s suggestions
Filed under: CARIFORUM-EC EPA: Debates & Technical Papers, Caribbean Thought, Power and Knowledge |
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 [...]
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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, [...]
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From Trinidad and Tobago Review, April 2007; special issue on the passing of Lloyd Best.
The 1960s in the Anglophone Caribbean was a time of transition—psychological, no less than political. The old colonial order was in dying, but there was much debate over what would replace it. What kind of societies and economies could, and should, [...]
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ABSTRACT — This paper assesses the contribution, limitations, and contemporary relevance of Caribbean dependency thought (CDT). CDT emerged in the early post-colonial period in the English-speaking Caribbean with a mission to extend political decolonization to the intellectual, economic, social, and cultural spheres. While part of broader international currents of radical thought, it had its own [...]
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30 years ago, economics in the Caribbean was much more interesting than it is today. It was concerned with matters like growth and transformation, distribution and equity, local control and participation, industrialization and agricultural development. Mathematical formalisation and econometric testing were not ‘dissed’, but it was accepted that they needed to be grounded in the [...]
Filed under: Caribbean Thought, Power and Knowledge, Jamaican economy, Norman's Commentaries 2000-2007 |
A personal account of the origins and early history of the New World Group from the standpoint of the author’s own participation followed by analysis of the content of New World thought and of its applications to various spheres of Caribbean life. Examines critiques of New World thought made by contemporaries and discuss the reasons [...]
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