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Trade Liberalization and Peripheral Postindustrialization in the Caribbean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Emilio Pantojas-García
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Abstract

In the 1990s, trade liberalization eroded the competitiveness of Caribbean economies as manufacturing export platforms. Proposed new economic strategies favored a shift from vertically integrated, transnationally based segment manufacturing to segments of knowledge-intensive industries and services. This strategy, however, reproduces the economic asymmetries associated with the core-periphery relation (low wages, value-added rates). Postindustrial technologies and economic strategies provide the opportunity to formulate alternative policies to overcome the shortcomings of peripheral postindustrialization and foster sustainable postindustrial development.

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Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , Spring 2001 , pp. 57 - 77
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Copyright © University of Miami 2001

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