Abstract The article examines the current human development experience of CARICOM nations focusing on the interconnected challenges of poverty, production and the environment that show continuing uneven development. Using an extended structuralist framework based on international political economy dynamics, it incorporates organizational dynamics and domestic politics, especially the role of rents in influencing productive and inclusive development. In this way, the article examines the 2016 Caribbean Human Development Report (CHDR) and finds evidence that human development, proxied by expenditures on education and healthcare, has decoupled from productive capability evinced by decreasing industrial output. We concur with recent critiques of the human development paradigm (HDP) that it has ignored a productionist view of development and thus limits the scope of development policy to bring about broad production transformation. By and large, structural heterogeneity also represents a challenge in CARICOM countries. Linked to questions of development finance, we find that the CHDR’s analysis of environmental concerns offers a narrow instrumentalist view and further marginalizes a deeper understanding of CARICOM countries’ asymmetrical relationship with transnational forces in the global economy. This contribution offers an integrated approach showing continued peripheralization and helps identify structural, socio-political and technical drivers that underpin the region’s complex development challenges.

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结构主义与人类发展：无缝结合？对加共体国家贫困、生产和环境挑战的评估

摘要 本文考察了加共体国家当前的人类发展经验，重点关注贫困、生产和环境之间相互关联的挑战，这些挑战表明发展持续不平衡。使用基于国际政治经济动态的扩展结构主义框架，它结合了组织动态和国内政治，尤其是租金在影响生产性和包容性发展方面的作用。通过这种方式，本文研究了 2016 年加勒比人类发展报告 (CHDR)，并发现证据表明，以教育和医疗支出为代表的人类发展与工业产出下降所表明的生产能力脱钩。我们同意最近对人类发展范式 (HDP) 的批评，认为它忽视了生产主义的发展观，从而限制了发展政策的范围以实现广泛的生产转型。总的来说，结构异质性也是加共体国家面临的挑战。与发展融资问题相关联，我们发现 CHDR 对环境问题的分析提供了一种狭隘的工具主义观点，并进一步边缘化了对加共体国家与全球经济中跨国力量的不对称关系的更深入理解。这一贡献提供了一种综合方法，显示了持续的外围化，并有助于确定支撑该地区复杂发展挑战的结构性、社会政治和技术驱动因素。