TY - BOOK AU - Girvan, Norman, ED - UNICEF. ED - Consortium Graduate School of Social Sciences. ED - Caribbean Symposium on Social Development TI - Poverty, empowerment and social development in the Caribbean SN - 9768125365 AV - HC155.5.Z9 P67 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - Kingston, Jamaica PB - Canoe Press University of the West Indies KW - Poor KW - Caribbean, English-speaking KW - Congresses KW - Social planning KW - Economic history KW - fast KW - Social conditions KW - Economic conditions KW - English-speaking Caribbean Area KW - Pobres KW - Caribe (Regi on) KW - Condiciones econ omicas KW - Condiciones sociales KW - Conference papers and proceedings N1 - 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 ER -