Drugs, Debt and Structural Adjustment in the Caribbean

Abstract

In the late 1990s, the economies of the Caribbean are confronted with the challenge of undertaking structural adjustment while being constrained by the use of resources for servicing debts and fighting drugs. On one hand, because of recent developments in the international economic environment, the countries in the region must be preoccupied with the imperatives of structural adjustment to pursue economic development. On the other hand, the persistence of the debt burden coupled with the corrosive effects of the international drug trade divert resources and attention from important development priorities. Thus, there is a vicious circle. Under these circumstances, the best defense against the penetration of drugs is economic development. However, such development is retarded by the debt burden, especially in Jamaica and Guyana. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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