Accountability, 48–50
lack of, 62
America’s hegemonic role, 24
Anti-corruption, 49
Barbaric neoliberalism, 39
Beckford, George, 2, 3, 9, 12, 15
Blocked development, 25
Bretton Woods, 24
Britain’s Westminster model, 33
Bureaucratic capability, good enough, 48
Capable bureaucracy, 48
Capitalism and Slavery (Williams), 12
Caribbean Community (CARICOM), 81
Caribbean dependency thought, 27
Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), 60
Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA), 60
Caribbean Economic Problems, 9
Caribbean economic thought, political economy and
introduction, 1–3
Lewis, William Arthur, 8–11
Plantation Economy School, 12–16
Staples theory, 3–8
“Caribbean-type” developmental state framework, 34
Chief Justice of the United States, 74
Close the 49th Parallel etc.: The Americanization of Canada (Lumsden), 13
The Cod Fisheries (Innis), 5
Colonial legacy, features of, 51
Colonial powers, 47
Common Core, 81
Commonwealth Caribbean, 78
Commonwealth governance, governance capacity in, 50–52
“Cooperative-security” organization (NATO), 24
Corruption, definition of, 49
Critical governance capacity, 49
Cuba, 54–55
Decision making, capacity of, 47
Democracy, 47
Dependency theory, 12
Dependency thinking, 27–28
Diverse landscape, 76–77
Dominican Republic, 57
Dual economy model, 25
Dutch Antilles, governance capacity in, 53–54
Economic Council of Canada, 3
“Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour”, 10
Economic History of Brazil (Furtado), 14
Economic Program Oversight Committee, 59
The Economics of Development in Small Countries with Special Reference to the Caribbean (Demas), 13
Economic (aid and loans) support, from mainland, 54
Educational leadership, for transformation, 82–85
Education and health, capacity in, 60–61
Education experience, 73–76
British influence on, 78
Caribbean as global partner, 77–82
diverse landscape, 76–77
educational leadership for transformation, 82–85
policy formulation, 74
Education Reform Strategy, 81–82
Egalitarian socially-sensitive policies, 37
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 80
Emergency management, 59–60
English-speaking Caribbean, 60, 78
English-speaking territories, 57
Estimates of Expenditure and Revenues, 59
“Externally endorsed” development, 37
Framework for Action to Meet the Basic Learning Needs, 75
French administrative system, 53
French Antilles, governance capacity in, 52–53
Furtado, Celso, 14
The Fur Trade in Canada (Innis), 5
Girvan, Norman, 2
Global Financial Crisis of 2008, 58
Global partner, Caribbean as, 77–82
Good enough accountability, 49
Good enough bureaucratic capability, 48
Good enough governance, 46, 47
Good enough strategic leadership, 47
Good governance, definition of, 31, 45
Governance and Development, 44
Governance capacity
in commonwealth governance, 50–52
definition of, 45
in Dutch Antilles, 53–54
in education and health, 60–61
framework for, 45–50
in French Antilles, 52–53
introduction, 43–45
legacy of, 50–56
in other Caribbean Territories, 54–56
in tourism, 56–57
Government-sponsored education, 73
Haiti, 54–55
Head of Department of Economics, 9
A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway (Innis), 5
Holistic development framework
past efforts, 25–31
key aspects of alternative paradigm, 31–39
political economy, of Caribbean development in retrospect, 23–25
Hudson Bay Company, 6
Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI), 12
Industrialization, 7
policy proposal for, 26
International radical political economy analysis, 27
Iron Law of Wages, 10
Jamaica, 5758
Laxer, James, 13
Leadership
educational, 82–85
strategic, 46–47
Leadership-learning connection, 83
Lewis, William Arthur, 1, 8–11, 25–26
Lobster production, 7
Mann, Horace, 85
Market failure analysis, 34
“Mental structure”, 37
Metropolis-periphery approach, 18
Miller, Errol, 77–78
Ministries of Education, 81
Neoliberalism, 29–30
challenging, 38
Neo-liberal New Public Management model, 62
Neoliberal policy prescription, 29
Neo-Ricardian sense, 10
New World Quarterly (Levitt), 14
Nobel laureate, in economics, 8
Nobel Prize in Economics, 16
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, 80, 81
Notion of equity, 74
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), 57, 81–82
Orthodox development policy, 33
People prosperity, 4
Persistent Poverty: Under-development in Plantation Economies of the Third World (Beckford), 15
Place prosperity, 4
Plantation economy models, 23–24
Plantation Economy school, 2, 12–16
Policy spillovers, 35
Political economy, of Caribbean development in retrospect, 23–25
Pork barrel policies, 33
Pragmatic policy approach, 35
Productivity-enhancing production method, 35
Public bureaucracies, 48
Public financial management (PFM), 56, 58–59
Public sector capacity
for governance. See Governance capacity
lingering issues in, 61–64
in modern times, 56–64
Public sector corruption, 49
Public sector reform (PSR), 58–59
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right, 79
Resourcing, 47
“Road to prosperity”, 26
Rowell-Sirois Commission, 4
Senegal, Dakar, 75
Silent Surrender (Levitt), 2, 12, 14, 18
Silent Surrender: The Multinational Corporation in Canada, 9
Smith, Adam, 11
Societal conditions, 49
Stages Theory of Industrialization (Rostow), 6
Staples theory, 3–8
Strategic industrial policy, 34
Strategic leadership, 47
“Structural adjustment” programs, 29
Student learning, impact of leadership on, 83
Stylized facts, 35
Task Force on Foreign Ownership and the Structure of Canadian Investment, 12
Tax reform, 29
Telecommunications policy, 56–57
The Theory of Economic Growth (Lewis), 9
Theory of Economic Growth and Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour, 3
“Third World” approach, 18
Tourism, 26–27
capacity development in, 56–57
Transformative leadership
definition of, 85
for education reform, 74–75
Transparency International, 49
Corruption Perceptions Index, 59
Universal Primary Education, 75
U.S. Education Department, 79
vis-à-vis international capitalism, 32
Western lifestyle, 37
Westminster Whitehall system, 51–52
White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education, 80
White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, 80
White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, 80
White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, 80
White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 80
Winner takes all syndrome, 33
World Bank, 44
World Conference on Education for All (March 5–9), 75
World Declaration on Education for All, 75
World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness, 59
World Education Forum, 75
World Trade Organization, 30
Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), 45