Chapter 1: China in the Caribbean Context -- Chapter 2: The Dragon can Dance!!! -- Chapter 3: Basic Macroeconomic overview of the Chinese economy -- Chapter 4: China’s Trade and External Outreach -- Chapter 5: Framework for Understanding Trade -- Chapter 6: Direct Effect but Competitive --...

Globalization is a phenomenon of inherent complexity. As such, it is defined by a number of positive, as well as negative, traits. The seemingly inextricable links between countries - created by international trade and membership in a variety of international organizations - are seen as a...

Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME) firms operate under various laws and policies on intellectual property rights (IPRs), innovation and technology. International analyses and rankings rate the CSME countries’ performance as poor in comparison with others at the same level of economic...

This article argues that, notwithstanding a number of challenges that impede the right to free movement of persons in CARICOM, it can properly be argued that, in light of the Caribbean Court of Justice's (CCJ) recent decision of Shanique Myrie v Barbados that the right to free movement has...

This paper analyzes trade in the Caribbean community (CARICOM) using a gravity model framework. The paper seeks to shed light on the dynamics of trade among CARICOM member countries, as well with the rest of world over 1980-99. Overall, the results show that intra-CARICOM trade has increased,...

The major macroeconomic goals are to boost output and employment levels and maintaining price stability. Two mainstream polices tasked with regulating the economy to achieve these multiple goals are monetary and fiscal policies. These policies use different instruments to influence the...

Fox and Bakhoum's recent book on competition regimes Sub-Saharan Africa showed that the region still bears the wounds of colonialism and as a result, markets do not work for the poor. Competition regimes in West Africa are struggling, but East/South Africa has made steady progress in...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has been pursuing both political and economic integration since its inception in 1973. While pursuing integration within the region, the entity has also been pursuing an extra-regional relationship with the United States of America.Three case studies are used to...

Deeper economic integration within the Caribbean has been a regional policy priority since the establishment of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the decision to create the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME). Implementation of integration initiatives has, however, been slow, despite...

The paper examines current human development experience of CARICOM nations focusing on the interconnected challenges of poverty, production and the environment that shows continuing uneven development. Using an extended structuralist framework based on international political economy dynamics,...

"This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of regional integration in the contemporary Caribbean, challenging the value of the neoliberal ideology that permeates regionalism discourse. The book asks what value neoliberal regionalism holds for the Caribbean, when its economic goals of...

Introducing An Alternative Development Idea -- The Imperialist Frameworks of Caribbean Development -- The Caribbean in the "New American Century" -- The Caribbean Making America Great Again -- The New Multipolar World Order -- Theoretical Advances with Caribbean Capitalist Development -- The...

Caribbean States organised in CARICOM recently brought forward reparation claims against several European States to compensate slavery and (native) genocides in the Caribbean and even threatened to approach the International Court of Justice. The paper provides for an analysis of the facts...

This study investigates the degree of integration among stock markets in the Caribbean Single Market area by analyzing the pricing of cross listed stocks within the region. The results show that the law of one price is generally violated for cross-listed stocks and there is little integration...

The need for increased market access and greater trade revenues, compels small developing nations to intensify their efforts to boost competitiveness on a global scale. Using survey data and a modified Heckman's two-step approach, an evaluation of factors regarding innovation in the CARICOM...

The objectives of this study were: (a) to explore the possibilities of developing a harmonized, pro-public health regional (Caribbean) IP regulation and drug policy (to include generic drugs) framework; (b) to make recommendations on the promulgation/up-dating of IP legislation and regulation...

US Afrodescendants should welcome the Caribbean Community of Nations' (CARICOM) decision to play the role of David versus Goliath in demanding reparations from former European colonialist powers. However, inherent characteristics that define CARICOM Afrodescendants are quite different from those...

This study was conducted to explore the possibility of developing a harmonized, pro-public health regional IP regulation and drug policy framework, to make recommendations for IP legislation and regulation to maximize TRIPS flexibilities while remaining TRIPS compliant, to identify the...

The central notion of the natural trading partner hypothesis is that a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will be welfare enhancing for members if there is a strong level of bilateral trade complementarity among their trade structures. This paper presents an empirical examination of this issue with...

The paper investigates the economic importance of remittance flows to the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM). Utilizing panel cointegration tests, the results show that there is no evidence of a long-run relationship between remittances and real GDP per capita or investment but some...

This paper analyzes the long-run impact of remittances on socio-economic development in the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) between 1970 and 2013. We find that remittances have improved the health indicators, reducing infant and child mortality, and food deficit and improving...

This article examines CARICOM's (the Caribbean Community's) history and institutional structure, by using the myth of sovereignty identified by Louis Henkin, as a launch pad for deeper exploration of the cause, nature and role of the conception of sovereignty. Specifically, it links that...

This paper addresses the issue of threshold effects between public debt and economic growth in the Caribbean. The main finding is that there exists a threshold debt to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio of 55-56 percent. Moreover, the debt dynamics begin changing well before this threshold is...

This report comprises the first phase of analytical activities and focuses on the relevance of the education and training systems in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). Its findings confirm the importance of strengthening the link between OECS education and training systems and...

The present report concludes the second phase of the cooperation between Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries and the World Bank to build skills for a competitive regional economy. It focuses on the nurse labor and education markets of the English-speaking (ES) CARICOM. The topic was...