ForewordAuthor(s): M.A. Odle and V.A. LewisSource: Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1, ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYPOLICY IN THE CARIBBEAN (MARCH 1979)Published by: Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the WestIndiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27861742 .

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Foreword

The essays presented in this Special Issue on Scientific and Technological Policy for the Commonwealth Caribbean Countries, are abstracted from a set of studies on this theme

produced under the aegis of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, and the

Institute of Development Studies, University of Guyana. The

Project, entitled Caribbean Technology Policy Studies, was

supported financially by the International Development Research Centre of Canada, and undertaken between 1975 and 1978, under the direction of Dr. Norman Girvan.

The larger studies have been produced in mimeo form

and a selection of them is now in the process of formal

publication. We present the essays in this volume of Social and Economic Studies as a means of giving a wider public of

researchers and policy-makers an indication of some of the

results achieved, and the methodologies and data on the basis of which they were achieved.

We wish to express our gratitude to all those within and

outside the Caribbean who were of assistance to our research ers during the course of their work on the Project. We wish to thank also Dr. Geoffrey Oldham of the International Develop

ment Research Centre for his continued assistance; and

Dr. Victoria Durant-Gonzalez, Research Fellow, I.S.E.R., who gave assistance in ensuring the collection and coheren?e of the essays.

Finally, we are grateful to the Caribbean Development Bank, and its President Mr. William Demas, for making funds available to assist in the publication of this Special Issue.

M.A. Odie, Director, IDS

V.A. Lewis,

Director, ISER

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