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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Caribbean: Unrealizable promises?

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  • Nigel O. M. Brissett

    (Department of International Development Community and Environment (IDCE), Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA)

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This article analyses the relevance of the SDGs to the needs of the Small Islands Developing States of the Caribbean Community. The article situates the SDGs within a critical interrogation of the social change logic of the universalizing global economic system. Thus, I argue that the SDGs, while recognizing some key economic and environmental concerns of the Caribbean Community, are hamstrung by their commitment to the unequal power structure of the neoliberal capitalist development model. Finally, this article calls upon regional and global social movements, and increased economic regionalism as ways of empowering Caribbean social change.

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  • Nigel O. M. Brissett, 2018. "Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Caribbean: Unrealizable promises?," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 18(1), pages 18-35, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:prodev:v:18:y:2018:i:1:p:18-35
    DOI: 10.1177/1464993417734440
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