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Towards Sustainability in Central America and the Caribbean: Introduction and Overview

In: Towards Sustainable Development in Central America and the Caribbean

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  • A. Geske Dijkstra
  • Anders Danielson

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Central America and the Caribbean (henceforth the CAC region) is characterized by diversity.1 Per capita incomes range from about US$ 300 in Haiti to almost US$ 6,500 in Barbados; in the global Human Development Index (HDI) ranking, Barbados and Antigua and Barbuda rank among the 30 highest, while Haiti, Nicaragua and Honduras dwell towards the bottom of the list. Other indicators, economic as well as social, basically follow these patterns. A natural question, then, would be: how can we justify the grouping together of such dissimilar countries?

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  • A. Geske Dijkstra & Anders Danielson, 2001. "Towards Sustainability in Central America and the Caribbean: Introduction and Overview," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Anders Danielson & A. Geske Dijkstra (ed.), Towards Sustainable Development in Central America and the Caribbean, chapter 1, pages 1-11, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-50212-3_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230502123_1
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