Dutch settlements on the coastal plain locked Guyana into polder agriculture and inadvertently a small widely dispersed …

institutional endowments. The choice of Barbados and Jamaica, two countries in geographical proximity which were British colonies …

In the years since World War II Barbados was transformed from a desperately poor society, with only a tiny middle class … concludes with thoughts on the way forward for Barbados and the Caribbean …

This is a policy paper which examines the development challenges of the Caribbean island of Barbados against the … 2018. The paper gives an overview of Barbados' trajectory as doing fairly well in terms of social development but having …

the Inter-American Development Bank's Caribbean region (The Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti, Guyana, Suriname, and …

colonial origins, economic performance and social indicators in Guyana and Barbados have continued to diverge. The paper … the 1980s, in the face of economic collapse Guyana had abandoned its strategy of cooperative socialism, and its economic …' history, geography, and demographics. In Guyana, while the focus on sound macroeconomic policies and donor support has been …