Policy frameworks, actors, and sites are anything but discrete, tending toward blurred, opportunistic, and imbricated relationships. Such imbrications are not peculiar to the Caribbean, but may be more readily experienced because of our small geographical and institutional scale. For example, policy-making in the Caribbean emerges from a multi-faceted, fluid, and at times eclectic, ad hoc, shape-shifting constellation of actors, arenas, and approaches. Historically, policy has emerged from

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... plinary locations such as economist Sir Arthur Lewis's dual sector economy or T. S. Simey's influence on welfare planning, or further, the entanglements of policy with politics, as reflected in the region's many five-year strategic plans, as well as through interactions with and pressures from global actors. In this imbricated sense, the region's peoples and institutions are never far removed from the effects of Caribbean policy-making.