rising sea levels will result in coastal squeezing and the loss of their main tourist attraction, beach tourism. Climate … force winds. This study attempts to quantify the potential supply-side effects of climate change on tourism in the small …

. (The paper was presented at the conference, “Financial Stability, Interconnectedness, and risk assessment in the Caribbean …

and points to issues that could be of relevance for the ongoing integration process in the Caribbean. It argues that the …

income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to …

After gaining political independence from the European countries and the United States, the Caribbean Basin economies … convergence are used to examine whether disparities in per capita GDP of selected countries in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM …

Since 1970, private sector credit has grown quite rapidly in the Caribbean. More recently, between 2004 and 2006, total … real credit in the Caribbean has risen by a cumulative 55.7 percent, or approximately 19 percent per annum. In some … Caribbean, employing annual data for 13 Caribbean countries covering the period 1970 to 2006 in the analysis. This study employs …

The tourist industry is widely recognised as the key engine of growth in the Caribbean, representing a significant … likely impact on regional tourism features. The analysis is undertaken by comparing historical tourism climatic indices to … deteriorations in their climatic features, are likely to be the Caribbean, Central America and South America. …

Caribbean women are more likely than men to be unemployed, as evidenced by the economies studied here—Barbados, Jamaica …