Index

• Author: Wendell Mottley
• Profession: New York-based Investment Banker having previously served as executive director of the company which eventually became the pivot of Trinidad and Tobago s natural gas-led industrialization and as Minister of Finance, credited with playing a decisive role in setting Trinidad and Tobago on a sustained path of growth from 1994 onwards
• Pages: 230-236

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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO INDUSTRIAL POLICY 1959–2008

INDEX

A

Ainsworth Harewood, 51

aluminum, 18, 21, 22, 25, 52, 57, 82,

85, 86, 144, 161, 184, 187, 188, 192,

193, 194, 195, 196, 201, 204

American revolutionary slogan, 106

an enabling politics, 138

analysis paralysis, 91

appointing sensitive nationals, 184

apprenticeship programmes, 94

arbitral award, 158

Argentina, 87, 89, 170

Arthur Lok Jack, 12

Atlantic LNG, x, xiv, 57, 58, 59, 63,

64 , 101, 19 5

Axis of Evil, 156

B

Bahamas, 71, 145

balance of payments, 76, 148, 222

bananas, 154

Barbados,7, 107, 141, 145, 148, 150,

152, 153, 154, 157, 158, 159, 185,

198

basic lessons, 203

Ben Primus, 11, 18

best global business practices, 90

Bolivia, 126, 185

bond financing, 90

boom, 2, 5, 13, 15, 16, 37, 39, 44, 49,

50, 79, 80, 97, 98, 103, 106, 107,

110, 111, 113, 115, 116, 117, 127, 128,

131, 132, 140, 146, 147, 151, 167, 175,

176, 177, 178, 192, 199, 206, 206, 221

boom conditions, 107

Brazil, 115, 170, 215

budget surpluses, 108

bunkering, 141, 142

burdens of adjustments, 127

C

cabinet and parliamentary approval,

106

cabinet note, 112

Cabot Corp, 56

Calypsonian Black Stalin, 167

Canada’s gas exports, 70

capital constraint, 146

capital deepening, 190

capital expenditure, 11, 44, 45, 46, 56,

103, 210

capital flight, 131

Caribbean Basin Initiative, vii, 88

Caribbean Godfather, 155

Caribbean neighbours, 3, 145, 146, 150

Caribbean Unity, 147

CARICOM, xii, 12, 16, 145, 146, 147,

148, 149, 150, 151, 154, 155, 158, 160,

161, 162

CARICOM Oil Facility, 148, 149

CARICOM Trade Support

Programme, 155

CARIFTA, xii, 147, 167

Carlos Hee Heoung, xi, 226

Caroni Ltd, 140

case studies, 3, 92, 204, 216

Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago,

ix, xi, xii, 7, 8, 31, 37, 52, 59, 76, 98,

99, 100, 102, 103, 145, 148, 152, 219,

225, 226, 228, 229

centralized authority, 91, 106

Chile, 87, 170

civil conflict, 105, 118, 125

civil conversation, 139

CL Financial, xiv, 49, 206, 226

collective competitiveness, 174

colonial manufactures, 10, 22

consistent macroeconomic

management, 52

containerization, 141