Abstracts
Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Conference
September 25-27 2008
Can Policy be used to reduce the Crime Rate? A case study of Trinidad and Tobago
Maukesh Basdeo, Sandra Sookram & Kerry Sumesar-Rai - sandra.sookram@sta.uwi.edu
The Impact of Tourism on Crime in a Small Island Developing Tourist Destination: The Case of Tobago
Wendell Wallace - castarakid@gmail.com
“Nah Go a Jail Again, Oh No”: A Philosophical Consideration on the Development and Challenges of the Abortion Debate in Jamaica
Keino Senior - keino.senior@uwimona.edu.jm
The Role of International Financial Aid Flows in Helping to Cope with Hurricane Strikes in the Caribbean
Eric Strobl - eric.strobl@shs.polytechnique.fr
Migration of CARICOM Nurses: Trends and Policy towards greater intra-regional migration
Diedron Lewis - diedron.lewis@sta.uwi.edu
Trinidadian university students’ responses to a fictional domestic violence scenario: The role of gender and study major
Alicia Hospedales & Terence Bartholomew - alimah_joy@yahoo.com
Understanding Investment Choices in Education Social Capital as a Latent Variable Analytical Concept
Linda Hewitt - linhew@trinidad.net
Is there a Crisis in Governance, Democracy and Development in the Caribbean?
Raghunath Mahabir - raghunath.mahabir@sta.uwi.edu
"So Help We Develop Nah" : Courting the Caribbean Disapora in the United States
Indira Rampersad - indira.rampersad1@sta.uwi.edu
Decolonisation, Democracy and Development. The Political Ideas of W. Arthur Lewis
Tennyson Joseph - tennysonjoseph@hotmail.com
Understanding the impact of Parent School involvement on Urban Children at an ECCE School
Hugh Wilson - hughwwilson@hotmail.com
Fete Societies and Rumshop Politicians: The Dangers of Ignoring Arthur Lewis and Globalization
Jerome Teelucksingh - j_teelucksingh@yahoo.com
Poverty and the Labour Market in the Caribbean
Andrew Downes - asdownes@yahoo.com
‘Hanging by Invitation: Capital Punishment and escalating Homicide rates in the Caribbean’
Biko Agozino - biko.agozino@sta.uwi.edu
The strategic part of scale at the economic Caribbean insular development
Daymler O’farrill Rolando - dayler@uh.cu
Youth in Participatory Development
Grace-Ann Cornwall - graceanncornwall@gmail.com
Dutch Disease and deindustrialization in a small petroleum rich economy: the case of Trinidad and Tobago
Mahindra Maharaj - mahindra.maharaj@sta.uwi.edu
Building a Regional Policy on Migration
Andrea Symmonds - ASymmonds@caricad.net
Sustainable development in T&T
B. Copeland, R. DeFour, S. Gift & St. C. King - stcking@eng.uwi.tt
The Political Economy of School Violence in Trinidad and Tobago
Daphne Phillips - daphne.phillips@sta.uwi.edu
Engendering Free Trade In The Commonwealth Caribbean: Women And The Free Trade Area Of The Americas (FTAA)
Kerrie-Ann Tucker - ktucker2003@hotmail.com
Contingent Rights In CARICOM: A Comparative Descriptive Analysis Of The Education and Healthcare, Sectors In Barbados, Jamaica, And Trinidad and Tobago
Kai-Ann Skeete - kasd27@hotmail.com
The Impact of Regulatory Structure on Telecommunications: A Stochastic Dominance Test of Developing countries
Anne-Marie Mohammed & Eric Strobl - AnneMarie.Mohammed@sta.uwi.edu
Children of Parental Migration in Trinidad: Narratives of their Experiences
Mala Jokhan - mala.jokhan@sta.uwi.edu
Sexual Abuse and Domestic Violence - A Threat to Development: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago
Karl Theodore, Christine Laptiste, Althea La Foucade, Charmaine Metivier & Kimberly-Ann Gittens-Baynes - charmaine.metivier@sta.uwi.edu
Dutch Disease and Deagriculturalization
Patrick Watson, Roger Hosein & Rebecca Gookool - rebecca.gookool@sta.uwi.edu
Macro Economic Policy and Changing Relations of Gender in a Transitioning Caribbean State
Eudine Barriteau - mabels7th@yahoo.com
The Academic Economist as Teacher; Lessons from Lewis and the Caribbean Policy Discourse
Mark Figueroa - mark.figueroa@uwimona.edu.jm
No Money, No Love: Representations of the Social Impact of Poverty in Popular and Literary Expressions
Paula Morgan - paula.morgan@sta.uwi.edu
Sir Arthur Lewis and The Westminster Inheritance in Africa and the Caribbean
Selwyn Ryan - selwyn.ryan@sta.uwi.edu
Rapists’ accounts of their motivations, levels of premeditation and target choices: Some Trinidadian and Tobagonian data
Simon Alexis & Terence Bartholomew - simonalexis2002@yahoo.com
Sustaining the Future Well Being of Our Children: An Empirical Analysis of Breastfeeding Practices in Trinidad and Tobago
Godfrey St. Bernard - godfrey.stbernard@sta.uwi.edu
Trinidadian drug users’ perceptions of the link between their drug use and other criminality
Gisselle Stephen & Terence Bartholomew - gisseus@hotmail.com
Female university students’ perceptions of a sexual assault when victim and perpetrator gender are varied
Ashmini G. Kerodal & Terence Bartholomew - ashmini_gopie@yahoo.com
The Possibility of Developing a Sustainable Non-oil Economy in Trinidad and Tobago despite the present state affairs, re: Globalization and Cariforum
Marlon Anatol - marlonanatol2000@yahoo.com
Social Policy In Trinidad And Tobago: Post Independence to the 21st century
Innette Cambridge - innette.cambridge@sta.uwi.edu
Sustainable Development Issues facing the Agricultural and Industrial Sectors
Grace LesFouris - lesfouris@yahoo.com
Youth and Sport: Expectations, Challenges and
Prospects: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago
Anand Rampersad - Pastiche6@yahoo.com
A Gender Based Approach to Disaster management in preparing for and coping with natural Disasters in the Caribbean
Narissa Seegulam - Narissa_seegulam@yahoo.co.uk
Migration and Regional Integration: positive impacts of migration in overcoming the developmental challenges in the Caribbean
Simeon Cornwall & Narissa Seegulam -Narissa_seegulam@yahoo.co.uk
An Economist of Pan-Africanism?
Yoichi Mine - kozam@kta.att.ne.jp
Human Capital, Culture, Markets Access and Productive Inefficiency in a Diversified Open Economy—Empirical Evidence from Rural Haiti
Sergot Jacob - j_sergot@yahoo.fr
Resistance, Mainstream Education, and Caribbean Development in the context of Globalization
Tyehimba Salandy - tyehimba.salandy@sta.uwi.edu
The Long Shadow of the Plantation: The evolution of welfare regimes in the (British) West Indies
Catherine Jones Finer - catherine@finer84.freeserve.co.uk
Trade Reforms and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: Empirical Evidence for Trinidad and Tobago
Michael Henry - m.henry@aston.ac.uk
Ethnic domination and reconciliation in multi-ethnic Societies: An alternative to J. Furnivall and M.G.Smith in Sir Arthur Lewis
Ralph Premdas - ralph.premdas@sta.uwi.edu
