Colonial Origins, Institutions and Economic Performance in the Caribbean : Guyana and Barbados /

The countries that were once British colonies in the Caribbean share a common language and a colonial history of slavery, dominance of a plantation-based sugar industry, and broadly similar government and administrative traditions. Following independence in the late-1960s economic strategies and per...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DaCosta, Michael
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/043
Online Access:Full text available on IMF