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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
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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
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OECS ports : an efficiency and performance assessment
Cubas, Diana; Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia; Bofinger, … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464746
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Recession and policy transmission to Latin American tourism : does expanded travel to Cuba offset crisis spillovers?
Romeu, Rafael; Wolfe, Andy - 2011
This study measures the impact of changing economic conditions in OECD countries on tourist arrivals to countries/destinations in Latin America and the Caribbean. A model of utility maximization across labor, consumption of goods and services at home, and consumption of tourism services across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487105
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Vacation Over : Implications for the Caribbean of Opening U.S.-Cuba Tourism
Romeu, Rafael - 2008
An opening of Cuba to U.S. tourism would represent a seismic shift in the Caribbean's tourism industry. This study … results show that a hypothetical liberalization of Cuba-U.S. tourism would increase long-term regional arrivals. Neighboring … destinations would lose the implicit protection the current restriction affords them, and Cuba would gain market share, but this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409021
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Transport policies and development
Berg, Claudia; Deichmann, Uwe; Liu, Yishen; Selod, Harris - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325772
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Small states, small problems?
Easterly, William; Kraay, Aart - 1999
Small states, no different from large states in income and growth, should receive the same policy advice large states do. Because of their greater openness, they may be more vulnerable to volatility in terms-of-trade shocks--but their openness pays off in growth
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001410104
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759248
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Early childhood development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Schady, Norbert Rüdiger - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003320804
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Do minimum wages in Latin America and the Caribbean matter? : evidence from 19 countries
Kristensen, Nicolai; Cunningham, Wendy V. - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003320814