Richard L Bernal

Biographic Data

ID1691412
NAMERichard L Bernal
GIVEN NAMESRichard L
FAMILY NAMEBernal
SIGNATUREBERNAL R L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the West Indies System
ORCID0000-0001-5607-0073
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS17
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • Does Fidel Eat More than Your Father

    Richard L BernalARTICLECaribbean Quarterly2022

  • The Guyanese Culture

    Richard L BernalARTICLECaribbean Quarterly2018

    (2018). The Guyanese Culture: Fusion or Diffusion? Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 188-191

  • The Dragon in the Caribbean

    Richard L BernalARTICLEThe Round Table2010Cited by: 5References: 4

    In recent years the People's Republic of China (China) has expanded its economic relations with CARICOM (the member states of CARICOM are Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago). This is evident in the increase in trade and development assistance. The objective of this article is to explain the expa…

  • The globalization of the health-care industry

    Richard L BernalARTICLECEPAL review2007

    The globalization of the health-care industry is proceeding. It is being driven by the high cost of health care in the developed countries, compounded by the steep rise in demand for health care as a result of the ageing of populations in these countries and the increasing availability of health-care services in developing countries at less expensive rates than in developed countries. Increasingly, patients are sourcing health care globally and o…

  • Restructuring Jamaica's Economic Relations with Socialist Countries, 1974-80

    Open AccessRichard L Bernal, Richard BernalARTICLEDevelopment and Change1986References: 7

  • A review of poliomyelitis epidemics in Jamaica

    Open AccessDeanna Ashley, Richard L Bernal et al.ARTICLEDisasters1985

    The prevalence of communicable diseases in the English speaking Caribbean has declined considerably over the last two decades, creating a false sense of security and complacency in implementing continuous preventive measures such as immunization. Poliomyelitis is one such case in paint. The last case of paralytic poliomyelitis was reported in Jamaica in 1969. Then twelve years later, in May 1982, the Ministry of Health announced the outbreak of p…

  • The IMF and Class Struggle in Jamaica, 1977-1980

    Open AccessRichard L BernalARTICLELatin American Perspectives1984Cited by: 9References: 1

    All programs of balance of payments adjustment involve the manipulation of macroeconomic variables and, therefore, implicitly contain a specific strategy of economic development that takes effect during, and continues after, the adjustment period. The International Monetary Fund's strategy of balance of payments adjustment and economic development is derived from its role in the capitalist world economy. The role of the IMF is to maintain an envi…

  • The IMF and the Foreclosure of Development Options

    Richard L Bernal, Richard Bernal et al.ARTICLEMonthly Review1982Cited by: 3

    On October 30, 1980, the Michael Manley government in Jamaica was removed from office by an electoral coup d'etat. The people of Jamaica, after four years of battering from steeply rising prices, growing unemployment, shortages of basic commodities, widespread violence and political assassination, and a relentless anti-Communist campaign, voted for "deliverance" from their suffering and their trauma. The change in the attitude of the people was a…