Norman Girvan
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Jamaican economist
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Norman Girvan's Degrees
- Bachelors Economics University of the West Indies
- Masters Economics University of the West Indies
- PhD Economics University of Manchester
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Norman P. Girvan was a Jamaican professor, Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States between 2000 and 2004. He was born in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica. He died aged 72 in Cuba on 9 April 2014, after having suffered a fall while hiking in Dominica in early 2014. He had been a member of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy since 2009, and in 2010 was appointed the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's personal representative on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy. He was Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies .
Norman Girvan's Published Works
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Published Works
- Corporate Imperialism: Conflict and Expropriation (1976) (58)
- Foreign capital and economic underdevelopment in Jamaica (1971) (54)
- Managing international technology transfer : a strategic approach for developing countries (1990) (34)
- Corporate imperialism : conflict and expropriation : transnational corporations and economic nationalism in the Third World (1976) (31)
- Transnational corporations and non-fuel primary commodities in developing countries (1987) (29)
- Overcoming technological dependency: The case of Electric Arc (Jamaica) Ltd., a small firm in a small developing country (1990) (22)
- Caribbean Dependency Thought Revisited (2006) (22)
- Assessing Westminster in the Caribbean: then and now (2015) (21)
- The IMF and the Foreclosure of Development Options: The Case of Jamaica (1982) (19)
- Is ALBA a New Model of Integration? Reflections on the CARICOM Experience (2011) (19)
- The Caribbean bauxite industry (1967) (16)
- Transnational corporations and technology transfer : effects and policy issues (1985) (15)
- Social Movements Confront Neoliberalism: Reflections on a Caribbean Experience (2012) (14)
- TECHNIFICATION, SWEETIFICATION, TREATYFICATION (2010) (13)
- Technology policies for small developing economies : a study of the Caribbean (1983) (13)
- W.A. Lewis, the Plantation School and Dependency: An Interpretation (2005) (10)
- The Caribbean in a Turbulent World (2010) (7)
- ALBA, Petrocaribe, and Caricom (2011) (6)
- White magic: The Caribbean and modern technology (1978) (5)
- The Question of Compensation: A Third World Perspective (1974) (5)
- Production Integration : A Critical Perspective (2009) (5)
- From the great transformation to the great financialization: on Karl Polanyi and other essays (2013) (5)
- Aspects of the political economy of race in the Caribbean and the Americas : a preliminary interpretation (1981) (4)
- Institute of Social and Economic Research and Consortium Graduate School of Social Sciences Information and Documentation System : final report (1994) (4)
- A perspective from the South (1999) (3)
- The Effect of the Economic Partnership Agreement on the CSME "The Fork in the Road" (2008) (3)
- ‘Learning to Integrate’: The Experience of Monitoring the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (2016) (3)
- Constructing the Greater Caribbean (2017) (3)
- Cuba : structural adjustment with a human face ? (2005) (2)
- Caribbean ecology and economics. (2011) (2)
- Bauxite: The need to nationalize, Part I (1971) (2)
- Lewis for the 21st century (2005) (2)
- Sir Arthur Lewis—A Man of His Time; and Ahead of His Time (2008) (2)
- The enabling international environment (2014) (2)
- The EU and the Caribbean: The Necessity of Unity (2017) (1)
- MARKET, STATE, AND CARIBBEAN INTEGRATION: Towards a New Paradigm - by - (1994) (1)
- Adjustment via austerity: is there an alternative? (1985) (1)
- The Search for Policy Autonomy in the South: Universalism, Social Learning and the Role of Regionalism (2005) (1)
- Tricks & Trips: Foreign Investment and Knowledge Transfer revisited (2002) (1)
- Caribbean fanonism, revisited: a note (2002) (1)
- Caribbean Symposium on Social Development, Barbados, 1995. (2011) (0)
- Lloyd Best for his part brought not only his skills as an economist but also his deep knowledge of Caribbean economic history together with an absolute irreverence of established ways of looking at the world (2005) (0)
- Production Integration: A Critical Perspective 1 (2006) (0)
- Caribbean Report 30-04-1993 (1993) (0)
- Information technology for small and medium enterprises in small open economies : issues for policy research (1993) (0)
- Corporate Imperialism in Mineral-Export Economies (2017) (0)
- Globalization and counter-Globalization in the caribbean (2016) (0)
- Lessons from the Struggle for a New International Technology Order (2006) (0)
- History of the Caribbean: Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World by Frank Moya Pons (review) (2013) (0)
- Report on the Caribbean Symposium on Social Development, Mar. 27-29, 1995, Barbados (1995) (0)
- Readers’ commentary (1970) (0)
- Society in Flux: The West Indies Today@@@The Caribbean Community: Changing Societies and U.S. Policy@@@Foreign Capital and Economic Underdevelopment in Jamaica@@@Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean@@@West Indian Societies (1973) (0)
- Copper in Chile.@@@The Chilean Response to Foreign Investment. (1973) (0)
- Bauxite: The need to nationalize, part II (1971) (0)
- Whither ACE? A retrospective evaluation of nine years of the Association of Caribbean Economists (1996) (0)
- Some thoughts on technology, development, and the Caribbean (1984) (0)
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