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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/39317| Title: | Accident or design? : the role of the state in Jersey's development as an offshore finance centre |
| Other Titles: | Competing strategies of socio-economic development for small islands |
| Authors: | Hampton, Mark |
| Keywords: | Investments, Foreign Investments, Foreign -- Jersey Banks and banking -- Jersey Jersey -- Politics and government Jersey -- Economic policy States, Small -- Economic conditions |
| Issue Date: | 1998 |
| Publisher: | Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island |
| Citation: | Hampton, M. (1998). Accident or design? : the role of the state in Jersey's development as an offshore finance centre. In G. Baldacchino, & R. Greenwood (Eds.), Competing strategies of socio-economic development for small islands (pp. 292-311), [An Island Living Series; V. 2]. Charlottetown: Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island. |
| Abstract: | The island of Jersey has been an Offshore Finance Centre (OFC) for over thirty years and is in competition with many other island OFCs, both in the North Atlantic area and globally. Conventional wisdom, or the "official" version of how Jersey became a successful OFC, gives the impression that the island's government - the States of Jersey - set out to deliberately create an international OFC in the early 1960s. This paper examines the role of the statel in Jersey's development as an OFC and asks whether the OFC was the result of Jersey's strategic economic policy or was due to other factors. In other words, did Jersey's success as an OFC happen by accident or by design? |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/39317 |
| ISBN: | 0919013236 |
| Appears in Collections: | Competing strategies of socio-economic development for small islands |
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