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Girvan, a professor at the University of the West Indies, was a strong critic of the dependence of the Caribbean and other post-colonial nations on economic.!
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Norman Girvan
Jamaican economist (1941–2014)
Norman P. Girvan (28 June 1941 – 9 April 2014) was a Jamaican professor, Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States between 2000 and 2004.
He was born in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica.[1] He died aged 72 in Cuba on 9 April 2014,[2] after having suffered a fall while hiking in Dominica in early 2014.[3][4] He had been a member of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy since 2009, and in 2010 was appointed the UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon's personal representative on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy.[5][6] He was Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI).[7]
Education
Born in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica, Norman Girvan attended Calabar High School in Kingston, and in 1959 entered the University College of the West Indies,[8] where he received his bachelor's degree in Economics.
He earned his PhD in