University of the West Indies Press Export/Import Trends and Economic Development in Trinidad, 1919-1939

About the Author Doddridge H.N. Alleyne has a distinguished record of more than forty years of public service with the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. He was Permanent Secretary, Minister of Petroleum and Mines, Permanent Secretary, Minister of Finance, Planning and Development, and Permanent Secretary to the Prime Minister. He also served as the Trinidad and Tobago Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Product Description This book was originally researched and written as an Oxford thesis submitted in 1958, yet it remains a valuable and pertinent study, by no means outdated by the passage of time. The fact is that the economic history of Trinidad and Tobago has been seriously under-researched, as compared with its political, social and cultural history. We still lack a scholarly account of the evolution of the country's economy, both overall and for specific periods. What Alleyne has written is a detailed, empirically rich study of the economic (and social) history of the colony in the crucial twenty years between the two World Wars (1919-1939), the period when the foundations for the modern, post-war economy were laid. The study is based on the meticulous research into a wide range of primary sources, especially official reports and papers, and statistical materials such as the colonial censuses and fiscal records. No other work provides us with this kind of basis for understanding the modern economy of Trinidad and Tobago.Co-published with the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago.