Sunday, July 13, 2014

Caribbean Integration and Development


Demas, William G., Caribbean Integration and Development, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1976.

From the Foreword:
This book contains a number of Essays written over a period of some 15 years – extending from 1960 to 1975. During this period the author was actively involved in economic policy-making at both national and regional levels – with the benefit of two brief sojourns at McGill University, first as a Research Fellow in 1964 and second as a Visiting Professor during the academic year 1966/67.


Contents:
Foreword.

Introduction by Alister McIntyre.

1. The Economics of West Indies Customs Union.

2. Notes on the Theory of Economic Integration among Developing Countries.

3. Planning and the Price Mechanism in the Context of Caribbean Economic Integration.

4. Employment Strategies in the Commonwealth Caribbean.

5. The Caribbean and Multinational Corporations.

6. Economic Independence: Conceptual and Policy Issues in the Commonwealth Caribbean.

7. Notes on Development Problems in the Commonwealth Caribbean.

8. An Over-simplified model for Managing the Caribbean Economies.

9. Factors in the Integration of the Caribbean Capital Markets.

10. Central Banking and Economic Transformation in a CARICOM country.

11. Some Thoughts on the Caribbean Community.

12. The New Caribbean University.

References.

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