Jamaica

Jamaica’s mounting external debt problems throughout the 1980s, and the associated package of structural adjustment measures which the international lenders insisted on, gave rise to a rapidly deteriorating situation for many people in Jamaica, especially the poorest. Jamaica: Debt and Poverty examines the origins of Jamaica’s debt problems in both the structure of the Jamaican […]

Throughout the Caribbean, communities of people are working together to create a few more choices and gain a little more control over their lives. ” This report is about those communities and the projects they have created and run. ‘ It has been written to help them tell their own stories and in the hope […]

Sugar, tea coffee and palm oil are the backbone of many Third World economies. But the processing and marketing of these commodities is controlled by the rich industrialised nations. This unequal exchange leaves Third World producers highly vulnerable to market conditions – and it is poor people who are hardest hit.