Question 1

A. what are rural areas among the poorest in the country?

b. What can the government in the region do to improve the income levels of rural farmers?

c. How can financial institutions help rural farmers?

Question 2

A. What are the major differences between the concepts of economic growth and economic development?

B. Name TWO strategies that a Caribbean country could use to achieve significant economic growth, in the current context of reduced aid inflows, reduced concessional loans, and greater likely global emigration barriers to its citizens.

C. Explain the importance of education, training, and retraining to develop human labor in the Caribbean economy.

D. What would be THREE critical steps that you would undertake if you had the responsibility of spurring economic development for your country over the next ten years?

Question 3

Describe THREE factors that encourage Caribbean integration, and assess the impact this integration is likely to have on the social, political, and economic development of the region.

Question 4

Tourism development, while providing jobs, income, and balance of payments improvements in the region, continues to conflict with sustainable development of the Caribbean environment. Discuss.

Question 5

To what extent is the plantation economy still evident in the Caribbean societies? Discuss this in relation to BEckfor's Theory.

Question 6

A. Discuss the impact of the brain drain on the development of Caribbean Economies

B. Examine FOUR areas of niche tourism that are offered in the Caribbean