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Focusing on the process of agricultural policy-making within the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), this book provides a context for understanding the evolving theory of regional integration among developing countries. Dr. Axline traces the progress of Caribbean integration from its beginnings in the mid-1960s to its present state of stagnation. Drawing on original documents and extensive interviews in the twelve CARICOM member countries, he describes the move away from a market-oriented laissez-faire approach to agriculture and the shift toward sectoral programming. The role of other regional organizations, such as the Caribbean Development Bank and the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute, is examined and related to national and regional policies in the agricultural sector. The Caribbean experience, concludes Dr. Axline, suggests that the future direction of regional cooperation among developing countries will likely be toward more intensive integration on a less extensive scale.

This article examines the implications of four alternative models of hemispheric integration. The first scenario is the creation of a hemispheric wide system of free trade. The second possibility is for a broad system of free trade based on a series of overlapping bilateral arrangements. The third possibility is the emergence of a bipolar regional structure along North-South lines. A final scenario is the emergence of a constellation of sub-regional groupings, organized around the United States or NAFTA. (DSE/DÜI)

Papua New Guinea offers an interesting example of policy implementation where political circumstances led to the adoption of implementation of policies that were contradictory in their likely consequences, but which, because of the way in which they were implemented, have not resulted in the contradictions foreseen by policy analysts at the time. The decentralization of political and administrative power and the reduction of inequalities on the level of economic well-being among different areas of the country were two central development goals articulated by the new government of Papua New Guinea at the time of independence in 1975. (International Political Science Association)