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Connectivity for Caribbean countries : an initial assessment

Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia; Bofinger, Heinrich C.; … - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468333

Measuring the determinants of backward linkages from FDI in developing economies : is it a matter of size?

Sanchez-Martin, Miguel Eduardo; Piniés Bianchi, Jaime de; … - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477987

OECS ports : an efficiency and performance assessment

Cubas, Diana; Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia; Bofinger, … - 2015

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Caribbean and Pacific Islands : A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts

Christie, Tamoya - 2016

Of the countries in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands, Timor-Leste has the most well-developed gender budgeting initiative. In the Pacific Islands, a few gender budgeting efforts were initiated but did not continue. In the Caribbean, there have been no well-developed gender budgeting efforts,...

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Income Inequality in Small States and the Caribbean : Stylized Facts and Determinants

McIntyre, Arnold; Bejar, Pablo; Komatsuzaki, Takuji; … - 2021

Rising income inequality has emerged as a major policy issue facing policymakers, but there is a dearth of empirical work on inequality in small states, including the Caribbean. Despite data limitations, the empirical analysis using a sample of small states finds that increased openness and...

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Structural Reform and Growth : What Really Matters? Evidence from the Caribbean

Greenidge, Kevin - 2016

Since the 1980's with the introduction of IMF/WB adjustment programs structural reforms have been a core part of the reform agenda in the Caribbean. The paper reviewed the package of structural reforms in trade liberalization, financial liberalization and tax policy, and gauges their impact on...

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Assessing Banking and Currency Crisis Risk in Small States : An Application to the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union

Pizzinelli, Carlo; Ishi, Kotaro; Khan, Tariq - 2022

To complement the early warning signals literature, we study the determinants of banking and currency crises for small states and currency boards. Building on the crisis dataset by Laeven and Valencia (2020), we estimate a binominal logit model to identify the determinants of crises, and as a...

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Revisiting the Potential Impact to the Rest of the Caribbean from Opening US-Cuba Tourism

Acevedo Mejia, Sebastian - 2017

The Cuban revolution and the subsequent US embargo on Cuba helped shape the tourism sector in the Caribbean … towards a change in US travel policy to Cuba is understandable, but likely unwarranted. The history of tourism in the region … that liberalizing US-Cuba tourism could result in US arrivals to Cuba of between 3 and 5.6 million, most of it coming from …

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Riding the Storm : Fiscal Sustainability in the Caribbean

Cevik, Serhan - 2020

Fiscal sustainability remains a paramount challenge for small economies with high debt and greater vulnerability to climate change. This paper applies the model-based sustainability test for fiscal policy in a panel of 16 Caribbean countries during the period 1980-2018. The results indicate that...

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The growth of transport sector CO 2 emissions and underlying factors in Latin America and the Caribbean

Timilsina, Govinda R. (contributor); … - 2008

"This study examines the factors responsible for the growth of transport sector carbon dioxide emissions in 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries during 1980-2005 by decomposing the emissions growth into components associated with changes in fuel mix, modal shift, and economic growth, as...

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