Argues that it is time to reclaim the right to development and the right of nations to engage in the international economy on their own terms. Kari Levitt advocates an international rule-based order which permits space for member countries to follow divergent paths to development according to their own philosophies, institutions, cultures and societal priorities.
Author(s): Kari Levitt
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 411
Contents
List of Tables
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
Part I - 500 Years of 'Globalisation': The Old and the New
1. 'Capitalism and Slavery': Institutional Foundations of Caribbean Economy
2. The Plantation Economy Models: My Collaboration with Lloyd Best
3. In Search of Model IV
4. The Persistence of the Plantation Legacy in Contemporary Jamaica
Part II - Post-Mortem on Debt and Adjustment
5. Facing Up to the IMF in Trinidad and Tobago
6. The Origins and Consequences of Jamaica's Debt Crisis, 1970–1990
7. Debt, Adjustment and Development: A Perspective on the 1990s
8. The 'Lost Decade' of the 1980s
Part III - The Michael Manley Legacy
9. Democratic Socialism in Jamaica: Manley's Defeat — Whose Responsibility?
10. From Socialism to Neo-Liberalism: The Michael Manley–Kari Levitt Letters
11. Lessons of the Seventies for the Next Generation
Part IV - The Right to Development
12. The Right to Development: The W.A. Lewis Legacy
13. William Demas: Primus Inter Pares
14. Reclaiming Economics for Development
15. Building Bridges Across the Caribbean
Appendix
Notes
Index
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