ABSTRACT
In the Anglophone Caribbean, postwar development policy was heavily influenced by neo-classical economic theory. Caribbean Nobel Laureate, Sir Arthur Lewis, advocated heavy reliance on foreign investment, export-oriented industrialization (Lewis 1966; 1978), and the creation of export enclaves requiring cheap (i.e. mainly female) labor (Kelly 1987; Ward 1986, 1990). The gendered nature of the neo-classical modernization paradigm produced gendered relations in development policy, planning and practices, which have stressed economic models as if
these originate in value free, ideologically neutral development paradigms.
