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- Title
After Bananas: The IMF and the Politics of Stabilisation and Diversification in Dominica.
- Authors
PAYNE, ANTHONY
- Abstract
Dominica was the quintessential banana island but now faces a major turning point in its history caused by the changing position of this crop within the global political economy. As the decline of its banana industry generated a major economic crisis, it was forced in 2002 to make a desperate turn towards the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It has remained under IMF supervision ever since, but has at last begun to chart the bases of a post-banana development strategy under the leadership of Roosevelt Skerrit, projected into the leadership of his country at an early age by the death of his predecessor but since re-elected to office in May 2005.
- Subjects
DOMINICA; BANANA trade; INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund; SKERRIT, Roosevelt; DOMINICA politics &; government; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2008, Vol 27, Issue 3, p317
- ISSN
0261-3050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1470-9856.2008.00272.x