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Waiting for Godot? The Case for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Small Island States
Cevik, Serhan - 2022
small island states in the Caribbean and elsewhere. This paper contributes to the debate by analyzing different options to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076817
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The Pacific Speed of Growth : How Fast Can it Be and What Determines it?
Yang, Yongzheng - 2013
of Pacific island countries (PICs) from their peers. Wefind that PICs are disadvantaged by distance and hampered by lower … investment and exportscompared with other small island states, but greater political stability, catch-up effects fromlower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080860
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Small Island States in the Pacific : The Tyranny of Distance
Becker, Chris - 2012
This paper seeks to document key characteristics of small island states in the Pacific. It restricts itself to a … development indicators. We show that small island states in the Pacific are different from countries in other regional groupings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098583
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977819
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982423
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306721
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243052
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956504
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A Possible Approach to Fiscal Rules in Small Islands - Incorporating Natural Disasters and Climate Change
Nakatani, Ryota - 2019
A big challenge for the economic development of small island countries is dealing with external shocks. The Pacific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860997
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Pacific Island Countries : In Search of a Trade Strategy
Chen, Hong - 2014
International trade is vital for economic prosperity in Pacific island countries, but their trade performance has been … center presents Pacific island countries with an unprecedented opportunity to develop trade with Asia, particularly in … island countries stands a better chance to improve broad-based growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047613