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#205 Economic Integration with Unequal Partners: The Caribbean and North America

By R. DeLisle Worrell

From the Preface

This paper is the product of research by R. Delisle Worrell, deputy governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, conducted in part while he was a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center from October 1, 1993 to December 31, 1993. Dr. Worrell's paper helps answer the key questions in economic relations between the English-speaking Caribbean and North America. Included in his paper are suggestions for opening a path toward greater economic security for the nations of the Caribbean region.

The paper begins with a historical discussion of economic links between the Caribbean and North America, considers recent integration efforts and trade arrangements, particularly CARICOM, and addresses the present course of change in the relationship. Finally, Dr. Worrell, an economist who first joined the Central Bank of Barbados in 1973, examines the future of Caribbean-North American ties. 

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