Arthur Lewis Revisited: Economic Development with a Limited Supply of Labour - Caribbean News Global

Arthur Lewis revisited: Economic development with a limited supply of labour - Caribbean News Global

By David R. Salmon The English-speaking Caribbean has been characterised by sluggish growth, high unemployment, low productivity, significant emigration and an overreliance on services (ECLAC, Citation2024, p. 24). Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana are notable exceptions as their hydrocarbon-based economies make them outliers in a region dominated by services. Nevertheless, they also share some characteristics of the Caribbean’s development experie…

Research Article - Arthur Lewis revisited: Economic development with a limited supply of labour

[This is an excerpt from an article in The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and Policy Studies.] Introduction The English-speaking Caribbean has been characterised by sluggish growth, high unemployment, low The post Research Article – Arthur Lewis revisited: Economic development with a limited supply of labour appeared first on The Round Table.