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...

We identify the political conditions that shape the economic position of married/cohabiting women and of the economically most vulnerable group of women-single mothers. Specifically, we examine the determinants of reductions in single mothers' poverty rate due to taxes and transfers, and women's...