The article sketches a development model for small economies in the 1990s as an alternative to the neoliberal model pushed by the IMF. It reviews the experience of Jamaica with various development models from the 1950s to the 1990s. It also draws lessons from the experience of small European...

This article explores the determinants of relative market income poverty and poverty reduction in advanced industrial democracies; that is, pre-tax and transfer relative poverty and reduction in poverty rates due to the tax and transfer system. Using data from twenty countries between 1969 and...