David de Caires–Witness to history and the search for a politics of meaning Stabroek News

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From Stabroek News, 28/04/08
On April 17, 2008 Martinique mourned the loss of its favourite son; the Caribbean lost one of its greatest poets, playwrights, essayists and politicians; and the world was left the poorer for the passing of Aimé Fernand Césaire…
Read In the Diaspora: the passing of Aime Cesaire by Linden Lewis

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Originally published as a series of articles on the EPA in the Stabroek News.
This paper offers from a CARICOM perspective a strategic appraisal of the CARIFORUM-EC, EPA, recognised as the first “full and comprehensive” EPA among the six being negotiated by the EU among the ACP group of countries. The EPA is both a legal [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Lloyd Best was one of the greatest, most original Caribbean thinkers of his time. He was at once economist, political scientist, sociologist, literary critic, and above all, philosopher. His ideas and insights, and the brilliance and eloquence of his expression, illuminated our understanding of the Caribbean condition. His work and example inspired countless numbers of [...]

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As Published in the Trinidad and Tobago Review, Port of Spain, November 2005
Norman Girvan
I first met Lloyd Best in 1960 when he was a young economics researcher on the Mona Campus of the UWI and I, an economics undergraduate. Lloyd had a huge impact on a group of students that included Walter Rodney and [...]

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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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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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