Author: Indianna D. Minto-Coy
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2015-06-26
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 1439892989
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Caribbean is at a crucial phase in its development. Global and local pressures have seen the region losing its competitiveness, while it remains at risk of losing out on development gains made in the last few decades. These pressures are demanding improvements in the way government operates, particularly in its policy-making and administrative
Author: Vinaya Swaroop
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →May 1996 The public sector's performance in the Caribbean varies, in reducing poverty and in creating an enabling environment for growth. Barbados and the Bahamas have been the high performers, Guyana and the Dominican Republic have been sluggish, and the other Caribbean countries fall in between. In the Caribbean region, the public sector is now the predominant provider of tertiary education and health services (university education and hospital-based curative care), which mainly benefit the nonpoor. Attempts must be made to recover costs from high-income users and use that revenue to improve the quality and quantity (as appropriate) of basic services. Lessons from experience suggest that most Caribbean countries need to encourage the private sector to participate more in providing infrastructure and need to provide a better regulatory framework. The good news: this is already taking place in many countries.
Author: Shahid Amjad Chaudhry
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780821330418
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of papers was presented at the World Bank Conference on 'Civil service reform in Latin America and the Caribbean', held in 1993. The goal of the conference was to promote the flow of ideas among researchers and practitioners in the civil s
Author: Hans F. Illy
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Field studies of politics, public administration and rural development in the Caribbean - examines obstacles to rural development and the historical development of plantations; looks at the peasantry confronted with technological change, socialism and agricultural policies, trends in forced labour and collective farming, rural area unemployment, land reform, agricultural marketing systems, etc.; includes case studies of Belize, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St Kitts Nevis and Suriname. References, statistical tables.
Author: Social and Economic Studies
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
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