The Caribbean Economy in the Age of Globalization (Early Modern Cultural Studies)

xii PREFACE the distribution of income between labor and capital. Chapter 9 discusses the critical role of government in influencing the climate for foreign investment and its implications for the tax structure and the public debt. It also discusses the role of education in advancing competitiveness and presents some recommendations toward that end. Chapter 10 examines the slow process of Caribbean integration, the issue of a common currency, and the mobility of capital and labor. Chapter 11 breaks the Caribbean external economic relations into its important elements and assesses the impact of the U.S. economy on Caribbean economic growth. The epilogue in Chapter 12 explores the implications of the ever changing external environment and the realignment of economic powers in the world for the Caribbean. The book examines the status of the Anglophone Caribbean economy and the options it faces as traditional preferential trade arrangements begin to disappear. Two broad options are explored : one is the transformation of primary exports into higher value-added products and the other is a shift in the economic structure toward tourism and other services. The book constructs a model of a potential Caribbean economy, described as a travel economy. The travel economy is based on two enduring features of Caribbean life, tourism and migration, and it is meant to provide a benchmark against which to gauge the evolution of the structure of individual economies. The main contribution of this book is a concise and methodological treatment of the issues of transition and adjustment that the Caribbean faces in an increasingly liberalized international trading system Front Matter....Pages i-xii The Caribbean Economy: An Overview....Pages 1-12 The Decline of Traditional Exports....Pages 13-20 Nontraditional Exports as the Frontier of Caribbean Development....Pages 21-30 The Service Economy....Pages 31-40 The Caribbean Tourist Industry....Pages 41-50 Migration....Pages 51-67 The Travel Economy....Pages 69-75 Investment and Consumption....Pages 77-89 The Role of Government....Pages 91-105 Caribbean Economic Integration: Drifting toward a Single Market and Economy....Pages 107-126 Caribbean External Economic Relations....Pages 127-143 Epilogue....Pages 145-152 Back Matter....Pages 153-180 This book engages in an interdisciplinary study of the establishment and entrenchment of gender roles in early modern England. Drawing upon the methods and sources of literary criticism and social history, this edited volume shows how politics at both the elite and plebeian levels of society involved violence that either resulted from or expressed hostility toward the early modern gender system. Contributors take fresh approaches to prominent works by Shakespeare, Middleton, and Behn as well as discuss lesser known texts and events such as the execution of female heretics in Reformation Norwic The book examines how globalization is altering the structure of the extremely foreign trade-dependent Caribbean economies. It treats these small economies together as a single economy by focusing on their common features.