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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 …
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. (The paper was presented at the conference, “Financial Stability, Interconnectedness, and risk assessment in the Caribbean …
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and points to issues that could be of relevance for the ongoing integration process in the Caribbean. It argues that the …
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Guyana has been able to reverse decades of economic decline and stagnation with five consecutive years of robust growth during the period 2006-2010. The study probes whether Guyana has finally turned the corner. The study finds that good policies as well as good luck explain much of the recent...
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income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to …
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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 …
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Caribbean. Data indicate that while some gaps in well-being have narrowed, progress is uneven across a set of nine indicators …
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unobserved productivity-linked attributes among Caribbean-English immigrants. There are regional and intertemporal variations in …
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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 …
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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. …
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