Sustainable Development, Fiscal Policy and Participatory Democracy in the Caribbean
Channel: Regions Refocus
Date: 2017-12-13

Rosalea Hamilton of Institute for Law and Economics and University of Technology Jamaica presents the paper “Sustainable Development, Fiscal Policy and Participatory Democracy in the Caribbean” she co-wrote with Vanus James of University of Technology. In this engaging 10-minute presentation, Rosalea illustrates the structural inequalities facing the Caribbean and their roots in the constraints of its domestic productive sectors. She highlights concrete recommendations to achieve equitable economic growth through democratizing fiscal governance, thereby addressing structural conditions of inequality and their manifestations throughout the Caribbean. Her paper connects concrete strategies for democratic economic governance while exploring and reinforcing resonances with the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals.

Filmed at the event "African-Caribbean Cross-Regional Exchange," co-convened by Regions Refocus and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung with Arab NGO Network for Development; Institute for Law and Economics, Jamaica; Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at University of the West Indies; South Centre; and Third World Network-Africa, on 14 July 2017 in New York, as a side event to the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.