Despite efforts towards greater poverty relief and neoliberalism, countries with hundreds of millions of inhabitants are not simply falling behind in a global march toward ever-greater prosperity: they are heading in the wrong direction, spiraling down on their own paths of retrogression. The cases of Haiti and sub-Saharan Africa are highlighted.
Jenkins,Rhys (Author) and Peters,Enrique Dussel (Author)
Format:
Pamphlet
Publication Date:
May 2007
Published:
Brighton, United Kingdom: Institute of Development Studies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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34 p., The rapid growth of China and its increased integration with the global economy is having both direct and indirect effects on the Latin American and Caribbean region. This report identifies the main channels through which China's growth is affecting the region and undertakes a preliminary analysis of the impacts that it is having on development.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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The Productivity Council is a TRIPARTITE COUNCIL comprising representatives from employees and employers organizations as well as the Government of Barbados; the Social Partnership.
The Productivity Council (formerly the National Productivity Board) was established by an Act of Parliament on August 31, 1993 to further the objectives of the Protocol for the Implementation of a Prices and Incomes Policy which was signed by Government, employers and workers representatives.
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] New York: Cambridge University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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609 p, Dr. Watts shows how the initial European vision of a land of plenty has been replaced by an awareness of the geographic and ecological fragiliaty of the area, and explains how the exploitative agricultural systems of the colonial and recent West Indies have not adjusted to the demands of the environment. An enormous array of historical, biological and literary sources are marshalled in support of Dr Watts' analysis, which is likely to remain the standard work on the subject for many years to come.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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396 p., Foreign interests have dominated the economic development of the Caribbean since the first arrival of Europeans in the region five centuries ago. From the plantation system and slavery to the exploitation of oil and bauxite by the multinational corporations, the history of the Caribbean people is one of dependency and impoverishment. For the great majority, past and present--slaves, indentured laborers, peasants and workers, the unemployed--the region's subjection to external control has meant systematic hardship and social injustice. in this survey of economic development in the Caribbean, Clive Thomas traces the history of colonialism and neocolonialism from the perspective of this majority.
Danielson,Anders (Author) and Dijkstra,A. Geske (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
New York: Palgrave
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
229p., Contents: Towards sustainability in central america and the caribbean / A. Geske Dijkstra and Anders Danielson -- Fiscal sustainability in the CAC region / Anders Danielson -- Fruits of interest / Trevor Evans -- Trade reform in central america and the caribbean / Rebecca Taylor and Andy Thorpe -- Economic reform, citizenship and social integration in central america / Carlos Sojo -- Crisis, adjustment and the dyamics of gender relations in central america and the caribbean / A. Geske Dijkstra -- Economic policy and the environment / Ruerd Ruben -- Sustained growth in Haiti / Mats Lundahl -- Performance of the manufacturing industry under adjustment / Philomen Harrison.
