lower investment and exports compared with other small island states, but greater political stability, catch-up effects from …

The paper examines the determinants of employment growth, drawing on data available across a sample of Caribbean … countries. To that end, the paper analyzes estimates of the employment-output elasticity and the response of employment growth … to major sources of labor market determinants, in the long and short run. The main determinants of employment include …

This paper provides quantitative estimates of the impact of removing agricultural support (both tariffs and subsidies … highly distortionary and tariffs have a larger distortionary impact than subsidies. Removal of agricultural support would …

-country general equilibrium model, where the degree of market integration depends directly on trade costs (transport costs, tariffs …

country's exports? To answer this question, I develop a model where a country can export two types of products: differentiated … and homogeneous. I show that export signatures and registration procedures reduce overall exports by increasing … show that each extra signature exporters have to collect before a shipment can take place reduces aggregate exports by 4 …