University of the West Indies Reports Findings in Investment (Disaster, Debt, and ‘Underdevelopment’: The Cunning of Colonial-Capitalism in the Caribbean)

Economics Daily Report

2021 APR 06 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Economics Daily Report -- New research on Investment is the subject of a report. According to news originating from St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “This article provides a critical overview of the structural forces exacerbating risk related to disasters in the Caribbean. It focuses on the historical antecedents and socio-environmental consequences of extreme weather events across the region via an anti-colonial analysis of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017 and Dorian in 2019.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of the West Indies, “The authors contend that the logics, practices and debts of colonial-capitalist development, neoliberal exploitation and post-independence corruption continue to reduce resilience and threaten public health in the region. They also detail the role that political economy and social geography play in the face of disasters.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “They end by proposing that future critiques of and solutions to vulnerability, disaster, and catastrophe in the Caribbean be more attentive to the historical trajectories of imperialism, debt and ‘underdevelopment’.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Disaster, Debt, and ‘Underdevelopment’: The Cunning of Colonial-Capitalism in the Caribbean. Development, 2021:1-7. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Development - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1945-6255)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Gabrielle Thongs, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Additional authors for this research include Levi Gahman and Adaeze Greenidge.