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Distr. LIMITED LC/CAR/L.155/Rev.1 21 December 2007 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT Volume I __________ The views expressed in this document, which has been reproduced without formal editing, are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Organization. i Table of Contents Foreword......................................................................................................................................................iii Informal economy and informal citizenship: Exploring causation and connectivity in socio-politico shifts in Jamaica by Eris D. Schoburgh (PhD).....................................................................1 New perspectives on corporate social responsibility in the Caribbean by Fabio Balboni, Wayne Charles-Soverall and Brigette McDonald Levy............................................................................17 The contribution of women to the economy and social protection especially in relation to unpaid work performed by women in the Caribbean by Sheila Stuart .....................................................37 Inside and outside the Afro-Caribbean diaspora by Regla B. Diago Pinillos.............................................76 The political economy of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean by Daphne Phillips...............................................97 Caribbean small States, vulnerability and development by Asha Kambon ..............................................105 Changing population age structures and their implications on socio-economic development in the Caribbean by Karoline Schmid.....................................................................................................141 Preparedness for rain during sunny weather: Caribbean environmental sustainability in a nuclear age by Gregory Freeland .........................................................................................................165 Regional integration in the Caribbean assessing the impact of the CSME on CARICOM’s poorest member State by Asha Williams................................................................................................181 Balance of payments constrained growth within a consistent stock-flow framework: An application to the economies of CARICOM by Esteban Pérez Caldentey .......................................196 Trade liberalisation, trade performance and competitiveness in the Caribbean by Michael Hendrickson .........................................................................................................................222 Prospects for development: CARICOM’s performing arts sector by Halcyon E. Hoagland....................253 The political economy of natural gas in Trinidad and Tobago by Jacob Campbell..................................273 Biographies ...............................................................................................................................................287 Guidelines for contributors to The Caribbean Development Review.......................................................289 ii EDITORIAL BOARD Professor Neville Duncan, Director, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social & Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica Dr. Denis Benn, Michael Manley Professor of Public Affairs/Public Policy, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica Dr. Juliette Melville, Chief Country Economist, Country Analysis and Policy Unit, Caribbean Development Bank, Barbados Dr. Carla Barnett, Financial Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Government of Belize, Belmopan, Belize. Dr. Barnett was formerly Deputy Secretary-General, CARICOM Secretariat Mr. Neil Pierre, Director, ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Mr. Rudolf Buitelaar, Chief, Project Management Unit, ECLAC, Santiago, Chile Mrs. Asha Kambon, Regional Adviser, ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Ms. Sandra John, Chief, Caribbean Knowledge Management Centre, ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago iii FOREWORD Caribbean Development Report is a new, refereed journal by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean. The basic objective of this journal is to publish articles that provide a biennial assessment of the most salient aspects of social- economic development in the Caribbean. It is intended that the highlighted issues would be used as a basis for the countries to respond collectively and collaboratively to specific development challenges. The framework of the Report can be found in the ECLAC mandate to monitor and report on the implementation of major United Nations global summits on social development and to support Caribbean governments in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Caribbean Development Report, Volume I, 2007, is our inaugural edition with abstracts. This will be a regular feature in all future editions. The issue contains 13 diverse but, nevertheless, interrelated articles that draw on policy ideas and practical insights on contemporary social and economic development issues in the Caribbean. We therefore wish to commend it to policymakers in the region and to members of the general public who are concerned with integration and cooperation, and those that seek to influence the formulation and execution of social and economic policies and programmes in the subregion. The journal welcomes contributions from the academic community, policymakers and staff members of research institutions and international organizations. Guidelines for contributors are given at the end of this issue. 1 INFORMAL ECONOMY AND INFORMAL CITIZENSHIP: Exploring causation and connectivity in socio-politico shifts in Jamaica1 By Eris D. Schoburgh (PhD) ABSTRACT For the past two decades, there has been an observed shift in how the Jamaican populace responds to institutions of the state. A political culture, generally characterized by large degrees of acquiescence and a greater sense of loyalty to the state has been replaced at one level, by more social and political activism evidenced in a constant agitation ‘to know’ or to be informed and at another, greater suspicion of governmental actions. The body politic exhibits an enhanced sense of independence bearing credence to the view that the state has lost control. Moreover, socio-political relations do not precipitate towards a collective consciousness of a national vision as the basis of governmental actions or decisions but instead assume a confrontational overtone, resulting in general disconnect between society and politics. This paper argues that the socio-politico transformation in citizens’ attitude and behaviour coincides with the expansion of the informal economy which has its genesis in adjustments occurring in economic relations within the state but which has had significant impact on socio-politico relations. It further proposes that the social relations of the informal economy have spawned an informal citizenship which ‘status’, although finds analytic resonance in post-modern socio-political processes, implicates how issues of identity and social placement are contemplated. The paper employs two social problems – informal settlements/‘squatting’ and alternative community leadership/‘Area Dons’ to support this proposition. THE SETTING Jamaica is among the three largest islands in the Caribbean (Cuba and the Dominican Republic being the first and second, respectively) with an area of 11,420 square kilometers and an estimated population size of 2.6 million even with a declining demographic rate which stood at 0.6% in 2001. A little less than half of the island’s population (40%) resides in rural areas but which might change given the rapid rate of urbanization that is occurring. The majority of Jamaicans (90%) is of African descent with the remaining 10% spread unevenly across ethnic groups such as Indian, Chinese, Syrian and Caucasian. Having once been a colony of Britain, Jamaica’s political and constitutional forms show much affinity to Westminster-Whitehall model of government but the practice of the derivative model diverts significantly from its origins (see e.g. Mills 1997: Ryan 1999). The two major political parties, the People’s National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) are outgrowths of mass social movements of the 1930s and have thus helped to shape the course of political and economic development of the island as well as influence a particular political culture. The latter point is illustrated by the inability of third parties to gain adequate political traction to challenge the hegemony of the PNP and the JLP. The JLP has the distinction of being the party that formed the government at independence in 1962. However since the granting of adult suffrage in 1944, both parties have alternated in forming the government with the PNP achieving the status of the most successful at winning elections and has since 1989 broken the pattern of party alternance as government and providing Jamaica with its first female Prime Minister, 1 I acknowledge the support of the Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick which through its Visiting Research Fellowship Award facilitated work on this theme in the United Kingdom; as well as the assistance of Deneal Walters of the Human Resource Management Division, UWI, Mona. 2 Portia Simpson Miller. Elections are due in 2007 and from all indications will be a ‘battle royale’ given that the