Competing for Development — Essays on the Self-Sustaining Growth of Caribbean Economies

Competing for Development — Essays on the Self-Sustaining Growth of Caribbean Economies

Vanus James in collaboration with Lloyd Taylor

Competing for Development is a book of essays covering some of the more interesting topics on the impact of increasing competitive capacity on self-sustaining growth and development in Caribbean economies. Our main aim is to help people face some of the basic realities and find the answers to the fundamental questions that have arisen over many decades about how post-colonial Caribbean countries can pursue development in the real world where competition rules. To this end, the essays move along quite rapidly from the international context through optimisation theory to historical evidence, and then to identification of critical policies to support competitive strategy. The only requirement for grasping our arguments is a knowledge of basic calculus and statistical data analysis. A major focus is the impact of government policies on innovation, education, and the development of the governance framework on optimal competitive strategy.

Dr. Vanus James is a mathematical economist and econometrician. His past postings have included; Senior Policy Adviser at the United Nations Development Programme and to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago and Coordinator of the Policy Development Unit of the Planning Institute of Jamaica. Currently, he is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School for Graduate Studies and Research, UWI (Mona). 

Lloyd Taylor was a founding member of The Tapia House Group in the 1960s and was a key early collaborator with Lloyd Best. He has written extensively on issues such as; political strategy, economic policy, transformation and post independence democracy. Lloyd is currently Director of the Tapia House Movement