MARGINALIZATION UNDER NEO-LIBERAL GLOBALIZATION

JULIET PORTILLO


Up to the end of the 1980's the banana industry was the largest single employer of labour, peasant occupation and export earner in the Windward Islands.  Enter the WTO agreement, American multinationals growing bananas  on Latin American plantations where cheap labour can be exploited and campaign financing for the Bill Clinton  presidential campaigns. Next: the U.S lodges a complaint to the WTO that the EU treatment of the ACP bananas is discriminatory; the WTO rules against the EU; the EU opens its market to low- cost bananas; and goodbye Windward Islands banana industry.
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Reference:

Girvan, N. Existential Threats in the Caribbean: Democratising Politics, Regionalising Governance