Placing women and youth within the framework of an agro-tourism strategy

This document explain: 1) any strategy for economic growth and development in the Caribbean should be framed by concerns for sustainable human development. Sustainable human development has been defined, in the United Nations Development Reports, as the process which enlarges people's choices while raising the level of their well-being. 2) As small island developing states with a unique vulnerability brought about by the open nature of our economies, the still prevaling monocrop structure of our economies and our susceptibility to natural disasters of a seasonal nature, achieving sustainable human development brings with it added challenges. 3) because of the intractable nature of unemployment and underemployment in the Caribbean, leading economists have suggested that any development strategy should have as one of its aims, employment creation

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Main Authors:	82144 Kambon, A., 58390 Collins, P., 1280 IICA, Port-of-Spain (Trinidad y Tobago), 18463 Tobago House of Assembly, Port-of-Spain (Trinidad y Tobago), 14616 Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources, Port-of-Spain (Trinidad y Tobago), 7882 FAO, Port-of-Spain (Trinidad y Tobago)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	West Indies (Trinidad y Tobago) 2000
Subjects:	CARIBE, TURISMO, MUJERES, SOSTENIBILIDAD, AGRICULTURA,
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