The soft underbelly of Guyana’s economic progress

By Professor Emeritus Compton Bourne, former President, Caribbean Development Bank
Introduction
My address to the Caribbean Develop-ment Bank Board of Governors in Georgetown in May 2005, postulated that major social and political problems in the Caribbean constituted the soft underbelly of economic progress in that the social progress achieved was insufficient in its distribution across households and districts to cap the wells of discontent which threaten the stability of future economic growth.

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