Caribbean Public Policy: Regional, Cultural, And Socioeconomic Issues For The 21st Century

by Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-wagner, Dennis J Gayle

Overview

This book focuses on public policy issues in Caribbean, evaluating current policy and suggests realistic improvements and alternatives. It also focuses on following themes: economic policy, the regional business environment, regionalism and integration, health care, labor and migration and gender.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813336275
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	10/06/1998
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1510L (what's this?)

About the Author

Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-wagner

Table of Contents

Introduction: Caribbean Public Policy Issues in the 1990s — Global, Hemispheric, and Regional Trends: Impact on Caribbean Public Policy — Global and Regional Trends: Impact on Caribbean Development — Hemispheric Trends: Regional Impact of the North American Free Trade Area — Hemispheric Trends: The Impact of Free Trade on the Dependent Caribbean— The Case of the French Overseas Departments — Regional Trends: The Role of the "Group of Three" — Regional Trends: Cuba-Caribbean Community Relations — Regional Trends: Cooperation and Integration— In Search of Viability — The Caribbean Public Policy Agenda: Challenges in Culture, Education, and Training — Caribbean Culture: Paradoxes of the 1990s — Caribbean Culture in the 1990s: Toward a Carefully Conceived Policy — Caribbean Culture: Ethnic Identity Issues— The Case of Suriname — Toward a New Caribbean Manager: Caribbean Management Education and Training — Environmental Education: Training for Coastal Management — Training for Health: The Management of HIV/AIDS — The Caribbean Public Policy Agenda: Human Development Issues — Drugs and Crime: Policy Perspectives — Caribbean Women in Transition to the 21st Century: The Need for Strategies to Develop Their Potential — Caribbean Labor at Issue: Labor Migrations and ILO Standards — Caribbean Migrations in the 1990s: Some Policy Implications — Telecommunications Policy in the Caribbean: From Tele-Colonialism to Sustainable Development? — Telecommunications Policy: Philosophical Issues, Creative Prescriptions — Environmental Policy: Changing Patterns of Coastal Eco-Development — In Conclusion — A Policy Vision for the Region — The Future of CARICOM — Sustainable Development of Small Island States (U.N.)