Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to the Caribbean play a critical role
in relation to growth and development. This paper provides evidence about
the nature and pattern of CARICOM FDI flows. A Gravity model,
estimated using the Hausman-Taylor procedure for panel data, is used to
explain such flows between a selection of CARICOM and OECD
countries. Income in both the host and destination countries play a
significant role in FDI flows, as do the level of financial development and

Political racialization has shaped the route to political power in Guyana
from the mid-1950s, cementing ethnic insecurity and patronage politics.
The 22-year rule of the East Indian-dominated party is threatened by
disaffection with corruption and by emigration of its ethnic base. A socalled
REDD agreement with Norway in 2009 provides international
legitimation and funding to win over indigenous Amerindian voters.
REDD illustrates how dispensation of international aid, without robust

Among the major concerns relating to the current vulnerability of
Caribbean youth is the continued use of corporal punishment as a means
of disciplining children, by those charged with the responsibility of caring
for them. This study was undertaken to obtain data on practices, attitudes,
and influencing factors among educators in four islands within the
Eastern Caribbean, as they relate to corporal punishment. A questionnaire
survey was administered to 835 students and 206 teachers in the four

Technological advancement is changing the way in which children exercise
their right to participate, and this change is revealing how looked-after
children are able to contribute to their development. The ways in which
looked-after children are using Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) need to be fully explored, in order to achieve a better
understanding of service provision and ways in which their agency can be
increased. This article critically examines the ways in which children’s

The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) calls for complete
adherence to Child Rights. To fulfil all these rights, societies would have to
recognize all children as equal citizens, irrespective of their social,
economic or personal attributes. While many of the Caribbean countries
have ratified the CRC, policies and programmes continue to be centred on
groups of children considered to be more productive. Such a narrow view
of citizenship and economic development has meant that some individuals

The study of youth political participation in local governments is scarce in
Latin America. Young people’s political participation remains most
commonly interpreted as a form of extended consultation, as “having a
say” in policy issues and areas of service provision that are directed
towards them. Local governance in Latin America is slowly emerging as
a potential new space to promote youth participation. This article analyses
the practices and experiences of youth political participation in four

Youth exclusion is framed as a threat to the sustainability of the Caribbean
Community (CARICOM), yet the literature on youth development lacks
analysis of the inclusiveness of regionalist frameworks of governance. This
article argues that recent changes to regional youth development strategies
potentially support the emergence of a regional citizenship construct.
Drawing on a qualitative text analysis of focal decisions, declarations and
strategies from 1973 – 2012, it documents a shift from an instrumentalist

Historically, youth development discourse in the Commonwealth
Caribbean straddles two distinctive perspectives. On the one hand, there is
the deficit perspective which describes young people as wards in need of
welfare. On the other hand, there is the positive youth development
perspective which speaks to the empowerment of young people to perform
their role as change agents and strategic partners in development. Both
perspectives have informed the Commonwealth Caribbean youth

This research project identified and analysed images and lyrics related to
sexual behaviour contained in Jamaican popular music videos. A criterion
was established to identify a local music video as being popular, and thirty
videos were selected for content analysis, regarding issues relevant to
HIV/Aids. Specifically, the project was guided by questions such as: Do
popular Jamaican music videos contain lyrics that refer to sexual
behaviour? Do the images in popular Jamaican music videos refer to sexual

This study is an attempt to examine the empowerment of women employed
in the flower crop trade in West Bengal, India, where a considerable
number of them can be found in the workforce. Women are still seen as the
traditionally ‘weaker’ sex in India. The major findings of this study are
that women working as housewives are considered less empowered than
those acting as marketing agents in the domestic flower trading market,
and those marketing agents who earn a higher level of income. This study