Edited text of the Second Annual Surendra Patel Lecture on Development delivered at St. Mary’s University, N.S. (Canada) on November 4, 2005. Reviews the work of Patel as a pioneer in research on technology transfer at UNCTAD in the 1970s and as a tireless campaigner for an International Code of Conduct on the Transfer of [...]
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Prepared for the UNRISD Conference on the role of Social Knowledge in Development Policy Making, this paper argues the need for the South to secure greater policy autonomy and discusses factors involved in achieving this. In the 1950s the subdiscipline of development economics promoted policy autonomy by legitimizing the principle that their economies should be [...]
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Abstract. Examines differences and similarities in the approach to economic development of the Plantation School of Caribbean economists and of W.Arthur Lewis by locating them within their respective theoretical frameworks. By tracing the evolution of Lewis’s thinking from Caribbean industrialization to the ‘dual economy’ and then to trade and development, it argues that the focus [...]
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Abstract. Keynote address on the occasion of the 2005 SALISES Conference marking the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Sir Arthur Lewis’s Theory of Economic Growth. Summarises and comments on Lewis’s work on industrial economics, the history of the world economy, development economcs and the ‘dual economy’ model, the problem of the terms of trade, [...]
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This paper examines differences and similarities in the approach to economic development of the Plantation School of Caribbean economists and of W.A. Lewis by locating them within their respective theoretical frameworks. By tracing the evolution of Lewis’s thinking in three stages from Caribbean industrialisation to the dual economy and then to trade and development, it [...]
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The Best-Levitt plantation economy studies sought to identify the structural constraints on the growth and transformation of Caribbean economies that arise from the historical legacy of the plantation system and the pervasiveness of plantation type institutions in the contemporary economy in the form of the multinational corporation (MNC). It was also the intention to specify [...]
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Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Lecture, Castries, St. Lucia, January 2002.
Revisits Sir Arthur Lewis’s views on foreign investment and technology transfer propounded in his celebrated 1950 article on West Indian industrialisation, in which he expressed confidence that local businessmen would learn the ‘tricks of the trade’ from foreign investors. Research undertaken n the 1970s suggests limited [...]
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Prepared for ACE retreat, Tobago, June 1-2, 1996
The ACE mission and its roots
ACE–the Association of Caribbean Economists–was founded in the mid-1980s, at the height of the neoliberal resurgence. ACE’s founding mission was to critique structural adjustment, and to formulate alternative, people-oriented development strategies for the
Caribbean. Pan-Caribbean cooperation–across language areas and political system-status–would be a means [...]
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