How trade liberalization affects a sugar dependent community in Jamaica global action, local impact /

Located within the plantation economy model of the "New World Group" of The University of the West Indies, this book explores how the changes in the European Unions sugar regime impacted a sugar-dependent community in Jamaica. It details how the end of centuries of preferential treatment o...

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Main Author: Stanberry, Donovan,
Other Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 284 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Series: Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Theoretical Framework
  • 2 The Origins and Development of a Plantation Economy
  • 3 the Sugar Industry Post-Independence
  • 4 The Avalanche of Trade Liberalization Since the 1990s
  • 5 The Response
  • 6 Conditions of the Industry and the Monymusk Sugar Dependent Area (SDA) before JCS
  • 7 The Impact
  • 8 Policy Implications.