MOVING BARBADOS FORWARD Abstract Jay R. Mandle More than forty years ago, Simon Kuznets on the occasion of receiving the Nobel Prize in Economics, distinguished between economic expansion based on the exploitation of natural resources and the process he described as "modern economic growth." The...

In recent years, Bangladesh has experienced economic growth but not economic development. This paper reviews the Janus-faced nature of the country’s leading growth sector – Readymade Garments (RMG). It is an industry that has fueled growth but is not productive enough to...