"Brings policymakers, practitioners, and scholars up to speed on the state of knowledge on urban and regional policy issues. Conceptualizes fresh thinking of different aspects (economic development, education, land use), presenting main themes and implications and identifying gaps to fill for...

"Includes papers from the Third Conference of Caribbean Economists held in Santo Domingo in 1991. The papers cover analyses of the economic experience of Guyana, Dominica, St. Lucia, Barbados, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba during the decade of the 1980s. There is also discussion of economic...