THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES SIR ARTHUR LEWIS INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES 2012 2013 STAFF Academic Dr. Jonathan Lashley Dr. Corin Bailey Prof. Christine Barrow Director (Economics) Senior Fellow (International Political Economy) Fellow (Economics) Fellow (Social Geography) Professor Emerita Professional, Administrative, Technical and Service Ms. Beverley Hinds Documentalist Ms. Annette Greene Temporary Research Assistant Ms. Jewel Bushell-Belmar Administrative Assistant Mrs. Sandra Tull Stenographer/Clerk (Grade I) Mr. Christopher Rollins Library Clerk (Grade II) Ms. Jacqueline Thompson Temporary Stenographer/Clerk Mr. Winfield Best Office Assistant Ms. Magna Forde Office Attendant WORK OF THE INSTITUTE The major highlight of the year 2012-2013 was the hosting by the SALISES Cave Hill of the 14 th annual SALISES Conference. The conference, under the theme Towards a New Development Paradigm for the Caribbean: The Next 50 Years, was held from 22-24 April at the Divi Southwinds Beach Resort in Barbados. The Conference dates were selected to coincide with the UWI s Semester Break to facilitate attendance by teaching staff. Over 70 papers were presented during the three day period. Among the sub-themes represented were: Environment, Alternative Energy, the Green Economy and Sustainability; Trade, Industrial Policy and Competitiveness in the Caribbean; Contributions to Caribbean Development Thought: Sir Arthur Lewis; Pre- and Post-Lewis; Public Sector Issues in the Caribbean; Governance, Fiscal Policy and the Debt Crisis; Private Sector Development, SMEs and Finance in a Development Context; Regional Integration and Caribbean Economic Development; Caribbean Sovereignty and Governance; Media Representation, Identity, History and Culture; and Education, Technology and Development. During the Conference, the Sir Arthur Lewis Distinguished Lecture was delivered by Sir Marston Gibson, Chief Justice of Barbados. The lecture titled: Accelerating Justice: The UWI in the Justice Process, spoke to a role for the UWI and its students in ameliorating the severe backlog of cases in the Justice system of Barbados and was described as refreshingly different.
The feedback received about this SALISES Conference was overwhelmingly positive. It was felt that hosting the conference at the resident hotel proved to be desirable. Special acclaim was given for the efficient and effective organization, scheduling and execution of the conference programme. Special tribute was paid to staff at all levels in the Institute for the cohesive and focused way in which they worked to make the conference a success. Recommendations for improvement in future conferences included the possibility of streaming the conference proceedings as well as the Distinguished Lecture and having better online payment options. The Institute also hosted the SALISES staff retreat during the two days immediately following the conference and at the same venue. The annual Public Policy lecture was presented by Dr. Paul Sutton on June 11, 2013 on the topic Westminster Challenged, Westminster Confirmed: Which Way Caribbean Constitutional Reform? The lecture was well attended and well received. A Public Policy Forum was held on the topic Contemporary Perspectives on State Punishment: The Case of Barbados on Wednesday, October 24, 2012. Presenters were: Lieutenant Colonel John Nurse, Superintendent of Prisons, Barbados; Mr. Jonathan Yearwood, National Council on Substance Abuse and Ms. Kim Ramsey, National Task Force on Crime Prevention. The Institute completed the following major projects: The Barbados Country Assessment of Living Conditions (CALC). A National Training Plan for Barbados. National Survey of the Small Business Sector in Barbados. Microcredit to Microfinance Project funded by CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank. The Institute continued to work on the following major projects: Compete Caribbean: Strategies for Private Sector Development in Six OECS Countries. This project is managed by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and funded by the IDB, DFID and CIDA. Executive Opinion Survey for the Global Competitiveness Index, World Economic Forum, Switzerland. The Institute embarked on the following new project: Strengthening capacity to monitor Human Development in Barbados and the OECS. This project follows a request from the UNDP for SALISES to partner with them on their Poverty Studies Project involving Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and the United Nations Human Development Index. Global Wealth Chains Project. The MPhil/PhD program continued during the year. First year seminar presentations were made by two of the MPhil students. The Institute printed three issues of the Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies (JECS).
The post of Professorial Fellow at SALISES Cave Hill remained vacant. The candidate selected to fill the post at the level of Senior Research Fellow was unable to do so, despite a number of extensions of the appointment date which she requested and was granted. As a consequence of this, the offer was withdrawn and a decision taken to re-advertise the post. This protracted vacancy had led to some supervision issues with graduate students. However, during the year, these issues were successfully resolved. There were notable staff promotions during 2012-13. These were: Promotion across the bar in the Senior Lecturer s scale. Dr. Jonathan Lashley Conferral of tenure. Dr. Corin Bailey Promotion across the Merit Bar in the Lecturer s scale and conferral of tenure. CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS ATTENDED (PAPERS PRESENTED) Dr. Corin Bailey Money and Respect: Masculinity and Drug Smuggling in the Caribbean. Presented at the SALISES Annual Conference, Barbados, April 22-24 2013. Professor Christine Barrow Adolescent Sexuality, Vulnerability and Agency. Paper presented to Conference of the Antillean Federation for Youth Care, Curacao, 20-21 September, 2012. How do we do Human Rights in the Caribbean? Panel presentation to UNAIDS Regional Management Meeting Politics, Policy and HIV, Jamaica, November 24, 2012. Impact of Stigma and Discrimination on Universal Access. Presented to UNFPA Universal Access Meeting on Structural Barriers, Trinidad and Tobago, December 3-4, 2012. Intersections of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and HIV. Presented to Caribbean Dialogue on Rule of Law and Gender-based Violence, The Secretary s Office of Global Women s Issues and the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, United States Department of State, Miami, December 11-13, 2012. Youth Sexualities, Vulnerability and Agency. Presented to PAHO Regional Consultation on Adolescent and Youth Health: Prioritizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV in the Caribbean. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, April 22-24, 2013. Dr. Jonathan Lashley Featured Presentation on Joining the Second Revolution: From Microcredit to Microfinancial Services in the Caribbean at University of the West Indies/CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank Breakfast Presentation, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, 19 November 2012. Presentation on Joining the Second Revolution: From Microcredit to Microfinancial Services in the Caribbean at SALISES Fifty-fifty Conference, Kingston, Jamaica, 20-24 August 2012. Beyond Neoliberalism and the Caribbean Development Impasse, 14 th Annual SALISES Conference, Towards a New Development Paradigm for the Caribbean: The Next 50 Years, 22-24 April 2013, Divi Southwinds, Barbados.
Small States and Offshore Finance, Two Day Symposium on Global Offshore: Understanding Caribbean Offshore Financial Centres, Faculty of Social Sciences, SALISES and the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 21-22 May 2013, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. International Trade as a Path to Prosperity for the Caribbean: A Cumulative Causation Approach. Presented at the 14 th Annual SALISES Conference, Barbados, 22-24 April, 2013. CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS ATTENDED (NO PAPERS PRESENTED) Participant at World Bank Sponsored Caribbean Growth Forum, St. Kitts/Nevis, 25 February 2013. Speaker at Consultation Forum on Compete Caribbean: Strategies for Private Sector Development in Six OECS Countries, Flamboyant Hotel, Grenada, 22 March 2013. Speaker at Speaker at Consultation Forum on Compete Caribbean: Strategies for Private Sector Development in Six OECS Countries, Antigua, 27 March 2013. Delivered Initial Address at Sir Arthur Lewis Distinguished Lecture, UWI, Cave Hill Campus, 23 April 2013. Moderator for Panel Discussion: Challenges for the Caribbean at Launch of the 3013 United Nations Human Development Report, UN House, Barbados, 15 May 2013. Delivered Welcoming Address at SALISES Public Policy Lecture, UWI, Cave Hill Campus, 11 June 2013. Professor Christine Barrow International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR), Regional Council Meeting, Costa Rica, October 20-21, 2012. UNICEF, Sub-regional Conference on Child Sexual Abuse to Advance the UNITE Campaign, Barbados, November 20-21, 2012. TEACHING AND SUPERVISION Dr. Corin Bailey Supervision Kyra Paul, MPhil, Cave Hill. Ezra Jn.Baptiste, PhD, Cave Hill. Alvinelle Mathews, MPhil, St Augustine. Anthony Mcloughlin, MPhil, Mona. Angela Dixon, MPhil, Cave Hill. Dr. Jonathan Lashley Supervision Economic Integration and Growth in Small Island Developing States (commenced September 2011) (SALISES, Cave Hill) Microenterprise Internationalisation (commenced January 2012) (Cave Hill School of Business, Cave Hill)
The Impact of Chinese Immigrant Entrepreneurs on the Jamaican Economy (formerly- Performance Gaps between Foreign and Domestic Firms in the Caribbean) (commenced September 2009) (SALISES, Mona) Growth and Women-owned Businesses in the Caribbean (commenced January 2009) (SALISES, Mona) Microfinance in Trinidad and Tobago (commenced September 2008) (SALISES, St. Augustine) Family Business and Succession Planning in Barbados (commenced January 2008) (SALISES, Cave Hill) Conditions for establishing and sustaining adaptive co-management of the sea urchin fisheries in Barbados and St. Lucia (commenced September 2008) (CERMES, Cave Hill) (supervisory committee member) Internationalisation of Firms in Small Island Developing States (appointed to supervisory committee February 2010) (SALISES, Mona) (supervisory committee member) The Impact of Selected Interventions in Rural Enterprises on Rural Livelihoods in Jamaica (appointed to supervisory committee May 2011)(SALISES, Mona) (supervisory committee member). Second Examiner MSc (Economic Development Policy) Development Project Appraisal (SALISES Mona). Teaching INTR 6005 Globalisation and Global Governance (Masters in International Trade Policy). Guest Lecturer, GOVT 3015 International Politics and Political Economy. Supervision Three students took leaves of absence during the academic year. PROFESSIONAL, PUBLIC AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE Dr. Corin Bailey Member of UWI Accreditation Sub-committee. Member of the Board of Gender Studies, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. Professor Christine Barrow Presenter, Early Childhood Stimualation and Alternative Discipline. Parent Education for Development (PAREDOS), Community Parenting Workshop, Barbados, Emmerton Community Centre, March 2, 2013. Facilitator/Rapporteur, Retreat to Review Graduate Programmes, Faculty of Social Sciences, UWI, Cave Hill Campus, May 6-7, 2013. Presenter, Caribbean Families: History, Structure and Morality. Family Life Commission of the Anglican Church, Barbados, Christ Church Parish Centre, May 15, 2013. Consultant, Research Project: Sexuality, Risk and Vulnerability among University Student in Barbados, UWIHARP, Cave Hill Campus, January August 2013. Member, Council of the Barbados Family Planning Association (BFPA). Alternate Director, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR). Member, Planning Committee for the Barbados Literary Festival (BimLitFest) scheduled for May 2014.
Dr. Jonathan Lashley Referee for the Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies. Committee Member for Non-Tenured Staff Research Fund, Faculty of Social Sciences Conference Committee Member for SALISES Annual Conference held in Barbados April 2013. Member of Advisory Committee for FOROMIC (Forum on Microenterprises) Conference (1-3 October 2012). Guest, Panelist in the public media. Member, Council of Economic Advisors. Chair, Barbados Agricultural Management Company (BAMC). Chair, UWI Strategic Planning Committee, 2012-2017, Cave Hill Campus. Managing Editor, Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies. Referee for two scholarly essays in the academic journal Globalisations Member, International Advisory Board of the academic journal, Progress in Development Studies. Member of British International Studies Association. Member, Academic Board. Member, Campus Appointments Committee (Principal s nominee). Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, SALISES, UWI, Cave Hill Campus. Member, Faculty Sub-Committee on Assessment and Promotions. Member, Campus Lecture Series Committee. Member, Campus Library Committee. Chair, Ordinance 8 Committee, 10 April 2013. Chair, SALISES Staff Retreat, 25April 2013. Member, Oversight Committee, Master in International Trade Policy (MITP), Shridath Ramphal Centre. Referee for book publications Routledge/Taylor & Francis. Moderator, Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC). Member, National Sub-Committee on Trade and Environment, Government of Barbados. Member, Sub-Committee on Competition Policy of the Technical Committee on External Trade Negotiations, Government of Barbados. OTHER ACTIVITIES Research Project Activities Global Wealth Chains Project Two-Day Symposium entitled Global Offshore Economy as part of Cave Hill s 50 th Anniversary Celebrations, 21-22 May 2013, Faculty of Social Sciences, SALISES and the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs. (Here the ongoing work emanating from the Global Wealth Chains project was presented by Don Marshall, SALISES Cave Hill, Duncan Wigan, Copenhagen Business School and Mike Rafferty, University of Sydney, Australia).
Dr. Jonathan Lashley External Projects: SALISES Special Studies Unit (SSSU) Coordinator of the SSSU (September 2006 to present). Ongoing Projects Compete Caribbean- OECS Project for a Private Sector Assessment Report and Donor Matrix Construction for the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). Commenced June 2012. Draft reports submitted July 2013. Completed Projects National Survey of the Small Business Sector for the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Empowerment, Innovation, Trade, Industry and Commerce. Completed in September 2012 External Projects: Other Project team member for the Barbados Country Assessment of Living Conditions as Coordinator for the National Survey of Living Conditions (Volume 3). Assistance also provided in the completion of: Volume 1: Assessment of Living Conditions Volume 2: Macro and Social Assessment of Barbados 1995-2010 Volume 4: Participatory Poverty Assessment Volume 5: Participatory Poverty Assessment for Vulnerable Groups Volume 6: Institutional Assessment Final Reports submitted December 2012. Project on: Compete Caribbean: Strategies for Private Sector Development in Six OECS Countries, funded by IADB, European Union (DFID) and CIDA and effected through the CDB. As Project Leader and Team Coordinator: Convened and chaired numerous meetings with principals of the CDB and the IADB. Travelled for research and consultations in several OECS countries. Held numerous meetings with Government Officials, civil society principals and heads of private sector organisations in OECS countries. Organised research team to travel for research and consultations in six OECS countries (Antigua and Barbuda; St. Kitts & Nevis; Dominica; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and the Grenadines; and Grenada). Prepared consultancy reports with team members. Scholarly Books under Completion for Publication: Caribbean Economic Development in Retrospect and Prospect: Path to Prosperity under the New Globalisation. Book manuscript. Development and Trade in Environmental Goods and Services. Book manuscript. Preparation for completion of the following articles: Is Tourism the New Agriculture? What are the conditions for Infant Industry Support. Trade Gains vs. Usage Gains in Developing the Green Economy.
PUBLICATIONS, BOOKS, ARTICLES, TECHNICAL REPORTS Dr. Corin Bailey Journal Articles Bailey, C & C. Coore-Desai. (2012) The Effect of Exposure to Community Violence on Levels of Aggression: Evidence from a Sample of Jamaican Children. Childhood. Vol. 19, 188-203. Sage. Bailey, C., (2012) Familial Paternalism Examined: The Case of Shoplifting in Bridgetown Barbados. Social and Economic Research. Vol. 61, 2, 73-98. ISER. Jamaica. Submitted Articles Bailey, C., (2013) Exploring Female Motivations for Drug Smuggling on the Island of Barbados. Feminist Criminology. Sage. Technical Reports CFS Standards and Disciplinary Practices in Primary Schools Eastern Caribbean: Study funded by UNICEF. Report submitted to UNICEF in August 2012. Approximately 107 pages. Professor Christine Barrow Articles: Good Face, Bad Mind? HIV Stigma and Tolerance Rhetoric in Barbados (with Peter Aggleton), Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 62, Nos. 1&2, March/June 2013, pp. 29-52. Caribbean Kinship Research: From Pathology to Structure to Negotiated Family Processes. Revised and accepted for publication to A Handbook of Gender and Development (eds.) A. Coles, L. Grey and J. Momsen. To be published by Routledge in 2014. HIV Treatment as Prevention in Jamaica and Barbados: Magic Bullet or Sustainable Response (with Geoffrey Barrow). Revised and accepted for publication, Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care. Technical Reports Graduate Retreat Review, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. May 2013, (19 pages). Key Contributing Author, Policy on HIV Testing in Barbados, HIV/AIDS Programme, Ministry of Health, Barbados. September 2012 (19 pages). Dr. Jonathan Lashley Refereed Publications (Published) Lashley, J. (2012). Chapter 6: SME and Entrepreneurship Policy in the Caribbean. In: Blackburn, R. and Schaper, M. (eds.) (2012) Government, SMEs and Entrepreneurship Development. UK: Gower Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-4094-3035-3. Lashley, J. (2012). Economics, Entrepreneurship and Gender: Integrating the Others into Enterprise Development Strategies. In: Barriteau, V. E. (ed.) (2012). Disruptions and Dangers of Love and Power: Destabilizing Caribbean Discourses on Gender. Barbados: University of the West Indies Press. ISBN: 9789766402655. Refereed Publications (Submitted) Lashley, J. and Warner, K. Evidence of Demand for Microinsurance for Coping and Adaptation to Weather Extremes in the Caribbean, submitted to the Journal Climate Change. Referees comments received July 2013. Revised and resubmitted August 2013.
Project Reports Lashley, J. (2012). Joining the Second Revolution: From Microcredit to Microfinancial Services in the Caribbean. UWI/CIBC-First Caribbean International Bank: Barbados. (74 pages). Lashley, J. (2012). Barbados Country Assessment of Living Conditions 2010: Volume 3: Survey of Living Conditions. Caribbean Development Bank/Government of Barbados: Barbados. (126 pages). (with Whitehead, J., Moore, W., Straughn, R., Hartman, M., and Blenman, C.A.) Compete Caribbean OECS Private Sector Assessment DRAFT Reports and Donor Matrices (submitted July 2013) for: o Antigua and Barbuda o Dominica o Grenada o St. Kitts and Nevis o St. Lucia o St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Scholarly Book (forthcoming) Finance Rhetoric and Gender Tropes into the 21 st Century, in V. Eudine Barriteau (ed.) Love and Power: Caribbean Discourses on Gender, Mona: UWI Press 2012. pp. 237-257. Global Ordering Structures and Caribbean Offshore Financial Centres: International Business, Capitalist Development and the Small Island Paradox: Ashgate Publishing. Reflections of the New World Group: A Caribbean Avant-Garde Movement in V. Desai and R.B. Potter (eds) The Arnold Companion to Development Studies, London and New York: Arnold Publishers and Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming 28 February 2014). Rihanna as Global Icon and Caribbean Threshold Figure in H. Beckles and H. Russell (eds.) Rihanna: Bad Girl Done Best, Mona, Jamaica: UWI Press. (Forthcoming 2014). Journal Article (under submission) Trade Policy and Caribbean Prosperity: Income Elasticity and Technological growth in Development Strategy. Project Reports Completed Strategies for Private Sector Development in Six OECS Countries, PSAR and DMX Reports for six countries: Final Draft Submitted October 2013 (with members of project team). AUDINE WILKINSON LIBRARY REPORT Overview The Audine Wilkinson Library continued to provide library services for the staff and students while continuing the agenda that commenced in the previous period. The additional responsibility of assisting the consultancy division added a new and exciting dimension to the services provided by the library staff. Library Usage and Statistics One hundred and five (105) visitors used the library during this period and the students of the Shridath Ramphal Centre continue to benefit from the resources offered both in the management of materials
made available and research assistance provided by the staff. This period two displays were erected to recognize World Intellectual Property Day on April 26 and OECS Day on June 18. PROFESSIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL AND SERVICE STAFF ACTIVITIES Beverley Hinds Teaching Assignment Information Research Skills Masters in International Trade Policy students Webinar Boosting Research Productivity and Collaboration in your Library Conferences and Workshops Attended Participant in Consultation Forum on Compete Caribbean: Strategies for Private Sector Development in Six OECS Countries, Grenada, March 22, 2013. Membership of Professional Associations Library Association of Barbados Special Libraries Association Association of Caribbean, University, Research and Institutional Libraries. Jewel Bushell-Belmar Training Activity Completed First Aid CPR AED Training and Certification, 30 October 2012. Attended Workshop entitled Employee Engagement Results 1 for ATS Supervisors February 2013. Completed Understanding Industrial Relations Workshop, March 2013. Completed HIV Sensitisation Workshop, March 2013. UWI Departmental Safety Officer, (SALISES representative). Service Continued to serve as an active Member of the UWI Cave Hill Service Excellence Circle (SEC). Sandra Tull UWI Departmental Safety Officer, (SALISES representative). Cell Leader, UWI Co-operative Credit Union. Completed First Aid Training, St. John s Ambulance Brigade, 10-11 October 2012. Christopher Rollins Attended workshop on Academic Copyright, Integrity and Plagiarism on March 27, 2013.