Norman Girvan

The CARICOM Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Explained, Sergia Garcia

Norman Girvan — Sat, 12 May 2012 10:37:37 +0000

In December 2010, the FAO Global Food Price Index surpassed the previous high level reached in 2008 which had led to food riots and social instability in many countries. This is the context in which the CARICOM Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy (RFNSP) has been prepared..

Jamaica: debt, the IMF and economic stagnation; CEPR Report

Norman Girvan — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:16:53 +0000

“The paper notes that Jamaica remains one of the most highly indebted countries in the world, and that its interest payments as a percent of GDP were higher than anywhere else in the world in 2011, including even crisis-stricken countries in the eurozone. Jamaica’s large debt burden has displaced most other public expenditures, taking up almost 50 percent of total budgeted spending over the last four fiscal years while health and education have been only around 20 percent combined.”

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UNCTAD XIII: Victory for the South, or a Draw? Three Views

Norman Girvan — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:52:17 +0000

At UNCTAD XIII recently held in Doha, a united front of the BRICS, the G77 and China, supported by intense NGO lobbying and a highly publicised letter from former senior UNCTAD staff (including several from the Caribbean), successfully resisted efforts by the Global North to retsrict the agency’s critical work linking trade, development and the global financial and economic crisis. Was it a victory for the South, or a draw?

Victory for the South Deborah James

Draw at Doha Vijay Prashad

South wins battle for new UNCTAD mandate Martin Khor

How can Caricom citizens be ‘Foreigners’ in Caricom countries? David Commisiong

Norman Girvan — Tue, 01 May 2012 04:01:52 +0000

Forty years after the establishment of the Caribbean Community, we continue to be held back by petty insular chauvinism.

Read They Are Not Foreigners! by David Commissiong

People-Centred Regional Integration: Answer to the Global Crisis (Video)

Norman Girvan — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:40:37 +0000

In this half-an-hour YouTube video, people from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe talk about people-centred regional integration as an answer to the interlocking crisis in global finance, economy, food, energy and climate; and its root cause, the neo-liberal development model. But where is the Caribbean?

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Food Security and Mitigating Climate Change: The Case for Organic Agriculture, Mervyn Claxton

Norman Girvan — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:25:40 +0000

Is Caricom ignoring the merits of organic agriculture in its policy choices for regional food security? A detailed and critical review that draws on a several authoritative sources raises troubling questions for consideration by consumers, public health professionals, educators, environmentalists, farmers organisations and government policy makers.

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Shifting the Geography of Reason, Caribbean Philosophical Association

Norman Girvan — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 04:00:09 +0000

Racial Capitalism and the Creole Discourses of Native-,Indo-, Afro-, and Euro-Caribbeans.

Under this broad heading, the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) will take as the organizing theme of its upcoming Annual Meeting to be held at UWI Trinidad July 19-21 2012, the impact of the global capitalist crisis on old and new thinking in the creole discourses of the region.

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A Caribbean Integration Party and New Federalism, Jon

Norman Girvan — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:17:10 +0000

Responding to Tennyson Joseph’s paper and comments, this contributor argues that a Caribbean Integration Party should take the form of a social movement. He goes on to outline a radically different structure for a new West Indian federation to make it both representative and effective.

Guyana: The Recent Scramble for its Natural Resources, C.Y. Thomas

Norman Girvan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:00:51 +0000

Distinguished Professor C.Y.Thomas assesses Guyana’s macroeconomic performance and outlook and critically evaluates the Guyana-Norway ‘partnership’ to exploit its rainforest potential.

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Grantley Adams–A Critical View, David Commisiong

Norman Girvan — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:00:09 +0000

A re-assessment of the role played by one of the leaders of Barbados’s labour and nationalist movements, who was the first and only Prime Minister of the short-lived West Indies Federation.

This year - 2012 - is the 75th anniversary of the 1937 ‘Peoples Rebellion’ that played such an important role in smashing the old racist colonial system, and ushering in trends that led to the Barbadian society of today…

Norman Girvan

The CARICOM Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Explained, Sergia Garcia

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Jamaica: debt, the IMF and economic stagnation; CEPR Report

Click here for CEPR report

UNCTAD XIII: Victory for the South, or a Draw? Three Views

Victory for the South Deborah James

Draw at Doha Vijay Prashad

South wins battle for new UNCTAD mandate Martin Khor

How can Caricom citizens be ‘Foreigners’ in Caricom countries? David Commisiong

Read They Are Not Foreigners! by David Commissiong

People-Centred Regional Integration: Answer to the Global Crisis (Video)

View video

Food Security and Mitigating Climate Change: The Case for Organic Agriculture, Mervyn Claxton

Click here for “Has Caricom made the right policy choices?”

Shifting the Geography of Reason, Caribbean Philosophical Association

Racial Capitalism and the Creole Discourses of Native-,Indo-, Afro-, and Euro-Caribbeans.

Continue reading

A Caribbean Integration Party and New Federalism, Jon

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Guyana: The Recent Scramble for its Natural Resources, C.Y. Thomas

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Grantley Adams–A Critical View, David Commisiong

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