Colonial legacies and postcolonial conflicts in Guyana / Kate Quinn -- Democracy and political culture in Suriname / Hans Ramsoedh -- The dichotomy of universalism and particularism in French Guiana / Fred Réno and Bernard Phipps -- Politics and ethnicity in the Guianas / Steve Garner --...

Microfinance and Black people -- Contextualizing microfinance in Jamaica, Guyana, and Haiti -- Cultural politics, bias, and microfinance -- Violence against borrowers and lenders in microfinance -- Alternative banking among the African diaspora -- Banking on indigenous systems

"From the late 1800s, African workers migrated to the mineral-rich hinterland areas of Guyana, mined gold, diamonds, and bauxite; diversified the country's economy; and contributed to national development. Utilizing real estate, financial, and death records, as well as oral accounts of the labor...

"Walter Rodney claimed developing countries were heirs to uneven development and ethnic disequilibrium, including continued forms of oppression from the capitalist countries and their own leaders. In Guyana, ethnic chauvinism persisted before and after independence from Britain. Rodney was...

This paper examines the relationship between the official and parallel exchange rates, in three Caribbean countries, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad, during the 1985-1993 period using cointegration, Granger causality, and reduced form methods. The official and parallel rates are cointegrated in all...