The University of the West Indies Press
The Underachieving Society :Development Strategy and Policy in Trinidad and Tobago, 1958-2008
Terrence W Farrell
The Underachieving Society :Development Strategy and Policy in Trinidad and Tobago, 1958-2008
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Language
English
ISBN
9789766404543
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part 1 Setting the Stage
1. The Roots of Ambivalence
2. The Determinants of Growth and Development
3. Theories of Economic Policy
4. Colonial Economic Policy
Part 2 Import-Substituting Industrialization, 1958–1973
5. Development Strategy in a Newly Independent Economy
6. Plan Organization and Implementation
7. Policies and Their Effectiveness
8. The Record of Economic Development, 1958–1973
Part 3 Resource-Based Industrialization, 1974–1982
9. Reshaping the Development Strategy
10. Natural Gas and Petrochemicals
11. Economic Impact of the Resource Boom
Part 4 The Lost Decade, 1983–1992
12. The Imperatives of Adjustment
13. In the Embrace of the International Monetary Fund
Part 5 The Neoliberal Phase, 1993–2008
14. Back to the Future
15. Vision 2020
16. A Golden Age
Part 6 Evaluation
17. Development Strategy and Policy over Five Decades
18. The Underachieving Society
Notes
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Selected Bibliography
Index
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