Four questions for regional integration
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 reliance on inter-governmental cooperation as the preferred mode of implementing decisions
- Its being undertaken mainly in response to external pressure
Is Caricom losing speed? Ricky Singh, Jamaica Observer, 23/03/08
Norman:
I hope you have sent this to PM Arthur and to all the other Heads. I guess the other issue would be whether it will be read, and taken seriously. But then, Lloyd Best, by his efforts while he lived, showed that there is a little bit of Sisyphus in all of us. It is just that the Sisyphus’s Caribbean rock is so big.
Cheers,
Alan