Development Administration in the Caribbean: Independent Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago

A detailed and historical account of both theory and practice, this book attempts to make sense of the loose and little understood field of development administration. The book focuses on development administration over forty years and identifies key attributes of public bureaucracy which are associated with bureaucratic performance. The associations between bureaucracy's attributes and performance are employed in explaining development differences between Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago over the period 1960-1995. Associations are explored at the macro level through aggregate data and at the micro level through fascinating case studies of the Industrial Development Corporations (IDCs), associated with economic growth, and the Ministry of Education, associated with women's empowerment. The study establishes clear patterns of associations in the empirical cases and explores the implications of these findings for the theory of development administration. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Development Administration and Development Bureaucracies: Failure of Theory and Practice....Pages 1-16 Development Goals and their Realization in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago....Pages 17-41 From Riggs to the World Bank: Recurring Associations in the Study of Development Administration....Pages 42-71 Public Bureaucracy and Economic Growth: The Associations....Pages 72-113 Public Bureaucracy and Economic Change: The Associations....Pages 114-148 Education, Social Change for Women and the Ministries of Education in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago....Pages 149-189 The Theory and Practice of Development Administration: Postscript and Notes into the 21st Century....Pages 190-212 Back Matter....Pages 213-257 "This book analyses the interaction between nationalism, feminism and socialism in Indonesia from the beginning of the twentieth century up to the New Order State of President Suharto. The focus is on the communist women's organization Gerwani, which was by 1965 the largest communist women's organization in the non-communist world. Gerwani members combined feminist demands, such as reform of the marriage law, with an insistence upon a political role for women. The organization was destroyed in a campaign of sexual slander orchestrated by the military under General Suharto."--Jacket This book analyzes the interaction between nationalism, feminism and socialism in Indonesia since the beginning of the twentieth century until the New Order State of President Suharto. The focus is on the communist women's organization Gerwani, which was by 1965 the largest communist women's organization in the non-communist world.