Economy Of Jamaica Research Articles

Female Sex Tourism: A Contradiction in Terms?

This paper argues that the ‘double-standard’ applied to male and female tourists’ sexual behaviour reflects and reproduces weaknesses in existing theoretical and commonsense understandings of gendered power, sexual exploitation, prostitution and sex tourism. It looks at how essentialist constructions of gender and heterosexuality blur understandings of sexual exploitation and victimhood and argues that racialized power should also be considered to explore the boundaries between commercial and non-commercial sex. This paper is based on ethnographic research on sexual–economic exchanges between tourist women and local men and boys in the informal tourist economy in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic.

‘One of the Fertilest Pleasentest Spotts’: An analysis of the slave economy in Jamaica's St Andrew parish, 1753

(2000). ‘One of the Fertilest Pleasentest Spotts’: An analysis of the slave economy in Jamaica's St Andrew parish, 1753. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 32-55.

The ‘new’ Manley and the new political economy of Jamaica

(1992). The ‘new’ Manley and the new political economy of Jamaica. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 463-474.

Socio-economic constraints on Jamaica's stabilization efforts: the importance of supply-side programs

Recently, there has been considerable interest in alternative stabilization programs in developing countries. This paper examines the possibility of implementing this type of program in a country that traditionally has had considerable difficulty in complying with International Monetary Fund programs. The macro-economic simulations of Jamaica's economy clearly show that successful supply-side policies could have mitigated the adverse income effects of stabilization associated with the standard IMF approach to stabilization.

Jamaican Working-Class Women: Producers and Reproducers

Jamaica's economy is underdeveloped, creating and maintaining relatively few income-generating opportunities for its population. To survive, working-class women who assume primary economic and social responsibilities for their children must be economically active, whether in the retrenching formal sector or in the growing informal sector. The following article examines how their culture and economy merge to define Jamaican women and their roles.

Jamaica in Crisis: From Socialist to Capitalist Management

Prior to the October 1980 election in Jamaica,1 the administration of Michael Manley's People's National party (pnp) had tried for eight years to turn Jamaica into a showpiece of socialist economic management. Shortly after the success at the polls of the Jamaica Labour party (jlp) under Edward Seaga, the administration of President Ronald Reagan in the United States promised to turn Jamaica into a showcase of capitalist development in the Caribbean. After eight years of pnp socialism and four years of jlp capitalism, Jamaica's economy has failed to respond to either ideological medicine and continues to drift from crisis to crisis.

Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834

Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834

Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica 1807-1834.

Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica 1807-1834.

Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834

Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834

Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1307-34.

Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1307-34.

Social stratification, cultural nationalism, and political economy in Jamaica: the myths of development and the anti‐white bias

Le sousdéveloppement en Jamaique est en partie causé par des activités commerciales de l'élite indigène de l'île. Dans cet article, l'auteur tente de démontrer comment les inégalités sociales de la richesse et du privilège se perpetueront jusqu'à ce que les institutions politico‐économiques contemporaines de la société nationale de la Jamaique continuent de favoriser l'expansion du secteur privé. Étant donné que les effectifs noirs ne constituent pas une partie significative de l'élite économique, l'auteur conclut que le pouvoir ‘blanc’ en Jamaique ne cesse pas d'être un fait accompli. Il en est ainsi bien que la popularisation du ‘Black Power’ et du socialisme démocratique aient forcé les blancs de devenir peu visibles. De plus, elle entreprend d'établir les limites du pouvoir politique, économique et culturel des blancs, et de démontrer comment ce pouvoir a changé depuis 1972.Jamaican underdevelopment is in part a product of the business activities of the island's local economic elite. The paper points out how social inequalities of wealth and privilege will persist as long as the contemporary politico‐economic institutions of Jamaican national society continue to favour the expansion of the private sector. Because the island's economic elite is predominantly non‐black, the paper concludes that ‘white’ power in Jamaica is still a very real issue. This is so even though the popularization of Black Power and Democratic Socialism have forced the whites to keep a low public profile. It is only by mapping the organization and composition of the island's economic elite and by documenting the role of these national entrepreneurs in Jamaican big business that it becomes possible to determine the extent to which white strategic command of political, economic, and cultural resources has changed since the advent to power of the People's National Party in 1972.

B. W. Higman. <italic>Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807–1834</italic>. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1976. Pp. vii, 327. $32.50

Journal Article B. W. Higman. Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807–1834. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1976. Pp. vii, 327. $32.50 Get access Higman B. W.. Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807–1834. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1976. Pp. vii, 327. $32.50. William A. Green William A. Green College of the Holy Cross Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 82, Issue 4, October 1977, Pages 1104–1105, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/82.4.1104-a Published: 01 October 1977

Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834

Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834

Size, Structure and Growth of the Economy of Jamaica.

Size, Structure and Growth of the Economy of Jamaica.