The Caribbean Economy in the Age of Globalization

ISBN-13: 9780230603806 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 180 str.

Ransford W. Palmer

Opis

The book examines the status of the Anglophone Caribbean economy and the options it faces as traditional preferential trade arrangements begin to disappear. Two broad options are explored: one is the transformation of primary exports into higher value-added products and the other is a shift in the economic structure toward tourism and other services. The book constructs a model of a potential Caribbean economy, described as a travel economy. The travel economy is based on two enduring features of Caribbean life-tourism and migration.-and it is meant to provide a benchmark against which to gauge the evolution of the structure of individual economies. The main contribution of this book is a concise and methodological treatment of the issues of transition and adjustment that the Caribbean faces in an increasingly liberalized international trading system.

Recenzje

"This timely collection of essays by a range of literary and cultural historians deftly explores the multivalent and sometimes conflictive uses of violence in early modern England - a period for which violence was a natural but by no means a transparent form of social expression. Early modern violence spoke volumes but the particular story any one act of violence might tell depended on its various agents, participants, and audience living the historical moment. One ringing refrain of this volume, however, is that violence more often than not told the story of the tenuous nature of patriarchal authority in early modern England. " - Patricia Fumerton, Professor and Director, English Broadside Ballad Archive, Department of English, University of California-Santa Barbara

Spis treści

The Caribbean Economy The Decline of Traditional Exports Nontraditional Exports as the Frontier of Caribbean Development The Service Economy The Caribbean Service Economy Migration The Travel Economy Investment and Consumption The Role of Government Caribbean Economic Integration: Drifting Toward a Single Market and Economy Caribbean External Economic Relations Epilogue Appendix

O autorze

RANSFORD PALMER is Professor of Economics, Howard University, USA.