The article then goes on to explain that as Social partnership evolved within this country that it then went on to add the Community and Voluntary as a pillar in the process. Based on the research done in this article (Murphy, 2002) goes on to highlight that the expansion of the process was to assure that equality, poverty and redistribution were more clear aims of the later rounds of the agreement. According to (Murphy, 2002) the Community and Voluntary Pillar includes seven national organizations and the Community Platform where membership of the 'Pillar' was designated by the government in October 1996, and the Pillar has since defined itself as primarily about social inclusion, equality and poverty. The journal article of (Roche, 2007) spoke about the widely attributed success of Social partnership on influencing performance in the Irish economy from the 1990s however it also spoke about the contrasting failure of centralized tripartite pay bargaining in Ireland during the 1970s. He went onto say that between the 1970 and 1980, unions, employers and governments were the only formal tripartite agreements concluded.
(Minto-Coy, 2011) explained in the journal that Barbados partnership emerged from growing economies and social burdens. These burdens included unemployment, fiscal deficits, declining foreign exchange and the widening external deficit between the late 1980s and early 1990s. Based on the debt which Barbados managed to accumulate, it forced the country to a crisis point. Out of this Barbados realised that the country was moving to a point which had a sustained negative growth. The article then explains that the government of Barbados initially sought support from the IMF and the World Bank through the Structural Adjustment Program (SAP). Concerns of the implementation of the SAP were later halted by the government over the potential social and economic impacts it would have.
