Poverty, empowerment and social development in the Caribbean /
edited by Norman Girvan ; with a foreword by Owen S. Arthur.
- Kingston, Jamaica : Canoe Press University of the West Indies, 1997.
- xviii, 157 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Papers from the Caribbean Symposium on Social Development, held March 1995, in Barbados, under the auspices of UNICEF and the Consortium Graduate School of Social Sciences.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The interrelationship between economic and social development / C.Y. Thomas -- Child centred development and social progress in the Caribbean / Marjorie Newman-Williams and Fabio Sabatini -- Empowerment and social development: theory and practice / Kirk Meighoo, Donneth Crooks and Norman Girvan -- Poverty alleviation and reduction programmes: the Commonwealth Caribbean experience / Ralph Henry and Alicia Mondesire -- The role of social partners: a note / Elsie Le Franc -- Afterword / Macharia Kamau.
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Poor--Caribbean, English-speaking--Congresses. Social planning--Caribbean, English-speaking--Congresses. Economic history. Poor. Social conditions Social planning.