One path towards development taken by a number of small jurisdictions is the establishment of an offshore financial centre. This text analyses the actual economic contribution for several small Caribbean economies and the impact to continued operation arising from an international initiative for the exchange of taxpayer information.

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WILLIAM VLCEK is Lecturer in International Politics with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. Following a nineteen-year career in government and private industry in the United States, he received his PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2006.

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International Norms and the Practice of Sovereignty Sovereignty and taxation Global financial governance and tax competition Resistance and withdrawal Small States in the Commonwealth and Elsewhere Caribbean offshore finance under pressure A future for sovereignty at the margins