Development, Political, and Economic Difficulties in the Caribbean. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ann Marie Bissessar, editor.
• Editors: Bissessar, Ann Marie
• Contents: 1. Chapter One: Introduction/ Development, Political and Economic Difficulties in the Caribbean -- 2. Chapter Two: The Diversified Economy: Possibilities from Modern Portfolio Management -- 3. Chapter Three: What Drives Economic Diversification in CARICOM Economies? -- 4. Chapter Four: Human Capital as a Catalyst for Economic Diversification in Trinidad and Tobago -- 5. Chapter Five: Corruption as an Impediment to Diversification: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago -- 6. Chapter Six: Asset-based Community Development as a Vehicle for Economic Diversification: Place-based Strategies for Building Stronger Economies in the Caribbean -- 7. Chapter Seven: The Economic and Political Costs of Diversification as a Way Out of a Recession. The Case of Trinidad and Tobago -- 8. Chapter Eight: Niche Focused Tourism Development in Small Island Developing States: The Case of Trinidad -- 9. Chapter Nine: Sustainable Climate-Smart Agricultural Solutions to Improve Food and Nutrition Security in Trinidad and Tobago -- 10. Chapter Ten: Whose Governance? IMF Austerities and Diversification in A Small Island State: The Case of Jamaica -- 11. Chapter Eleven: Cuba: A Caribbean SIDS Reinventing Itself -- 12. Chapter Twelve: Diversification, Macroeconomic Growth and Development: The Case of Martinique -- 13. Chapter Thirteen: Resilient or Recalcitrant? Revisiting the Diversification Discourse in the Wake of a Global Recession -- 14. Chapter Fourteen: The Diversification of Committee Systems in Parliaments of Small States: A Study of Trinidad and Tobago and Dominica -- 15. Chapter Fifteen: Agricultural Diversification - A Strategy Out of the Economic Difficulties of the Sugarcane Industry -- 16. Chapter Sixteen: Why Diversification Fails.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 338.9729; 338.9; Economic development -- Caribbean Area; Economic development; Economic development -- Environmental aspects; Social change; Economic policy; Poverty; Regional Development; Development and Sustainability; Development and Post-Colonialism; Development and Social Change; Development Policy; Development Aid; Economic development; Economic policy; Poverty; Social change; Caribbean Area -- Economic policy; Caribbean Area -- Social policy; Caribbean Area -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Caribbean Area -- Economic conditions -- 21st century; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030029944; 3030029948; 9783030029937
• Related ISBNs: 303002993X
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 21, 2019).
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