Research Papers

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We encourage researchers to use our forum to make their work available to a large audience and particularly welcome the submission of original and authoritative papers which elaborate the problems and possible solutions to the challenges facing Caribbean development.

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• Viable Financial Sectors: Assessing Repayment Risk in Small Island Economies

  by Seymour Douglas (Emory University)

• The Impact of Government Expenditure on Economic Growth in the OECS: A Disaggregated Approach

  by Seymour Douglas and Oral Williams

• Resource Management Changes in the Caribbean: The Eco-Eco-Approach

  by Beate M.W. Ratter (University of Hamburg)

  
  

  (Abbreviated version of article originally published in: Ratter, Beate M.W. and W.-D. Sahr (eds.) 1997. Land, Sea and Human Effort in the Caribbean, Hamburg: Institut fuer Geographie der Universitaet Hamburg, Arbeitsbereich Wirtschaftsgeographie, 17-30.)

• The "Shiprider" Controversy and the Question of Caribbean Sovereignty
  by Holger Henke
  (Will be published in a refereed journal in June 1998 and is therefore no longer available as a download)
• Upholding Democracy? Recent Political and Economic Trends in Post-Intervention Haiti and Future Prospects

  by Holger Henke

• Les abolitions francaises de l'esclavage: 1789-1848 (In French)

  by Dominique Chathuant (College Raymond Sirot, Gueux, France)

• An Outmoded Notion of Sovereignty

  by Kirk Meighoo (University of Hull)

  
  

  (Text originally published in Trinidad and Tobago Review 19 [Nos. 7-9, Independence Day 1997]: 7-11)