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The Pacific speed of growth : how fast can it be and what determines it?

Yang, Yongzheng; Chen, Hong; Singh, Shiu Raj; Singh, Baljeet - 2013

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The Pacific Speed of Growth : How Fast Can It Be and What Determines It?

Yang, Yongzheng - 2013

performance of Pacific island countries (PICs) from their peers. We find that PICs are disadvantaged by distance and hampered by … lower investment and exports compared with other small island states, but greater political stability, catch-up effects from …

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Caribbean Approaches to Economic Stabilization

Hilaire, Alvin - 2000

In the late 1980s Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago found themselves in severe economic difficulties …

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Caribbean and Pacific Islands : a survey of gender budgeting efforts

Christie, Tamoya A. L.; Thakur, Dhanaraj - 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, Meredith A.; 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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Assessing banking and currency crisis risk in small states : an application to the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union

Pizzinelli, Carlo; Khan, Tariq; Ishi, Kotaro - 2021

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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Loss of correspondent banking relationships in the Caribbean : trends, impact, and policy options

Alleyne, Trevor; Bouhga-Hagbe, Jacques; Dowling, Thomas; … - 2017

Banks across the Caribbean have lost important Correspondent Banking Relationships (CBRs). The macroeconomic impact has so far been limited, in part because banks either have multiple relationships or have been successful in replacing lost CBRs. However, the cost of services has increased...

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Structural reform and growth : what really matters? : evidence from the Caribbean

Greenidge, Kevin C. D.; McIntyre, Meredith A.; Yun, Hanlei - 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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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...

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Revisiting the potential impact to the rest of the Caribbean from opening US-Cuba tourism

Acevedo, Sebastian; Alleyne, Trevor; Romeu, Rafael - 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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