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Models of Balance of Payments Constrained Growth : History, Theory and Empirical Evidence
Soukiazis, Elias (ed.); Cerqueira, Pedro A. (ed.) - 2012
This book extends Thirlwall's model and adapts its implications to the current problems facing developed and emerging economies. In this context, this book combines theoretical models and empirical applications, unveiling new results and highlighting the importance of the balance of payments as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106315
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Developing Sustainable Balance of Payments in Small Countries : Lessons from Macroeconomic Deadlock in Jamaica
Haughton, Andre - 2017
This book analyses Jamaica’s ability to satisfy its short and long run foreign currency obligations in light of recurrent balance of payment support from international lending agencies. Jamaica is one of the top five indebted nations in the world, and despite entering 13 successive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397178
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Travel and Tourism in the Caribbean : Challenges and Opportunities for Small Island Developing States
Spencer, Andrew - 2019
This book explores the distinct nuisances and obstacles that are brought on by the tourism and travel industry within … by their developed counterparts. This book reflects on and assesses the transformative power that tourism has in …1. Synopsis of the Tourism Industry Within the Caribbean -- 2. Climate Change and the Sustainable Development of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012395998
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The Caribbean Economy in the Age of Globalization
Palmer, Ransford W. - 2009
The book examines how globalization is altering the structure of the extremely foreign trade-dependent Caribbean economies. It treats these small economies together as a single economy by focusing on their common features.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106284
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Sino-Mexican Trade Relations : Challenges and Opportunities
Liu, Yi - 2017
the normalization of diplomatic relations in the 1980s. Second, it presents a re-evaluation of Mexico’s trade policies … events and conducting empirical analyses throughout Mexico’s economic development, which has been characterized by both …An Introduction -- Sino-Mexican Economic and Trade Relations -- Economic Policies in China and Mexico -- AD Use in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398211
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Aid, Trade and Development : 50 Years of Globalization
Michalopoulos, Constantine - 2017
“This is a very well written book, technically sound, and a great source of material for anyone who wants to understand the factors that have shaped much of international economics for the past half a century.” -K.Y. Amoako, President of the African Center for Economic Transformation, Ghana...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397736
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The Exhaustion of the Dollar : Its Implications for Global Prosperity
Gray, Henry Peter - 2004
The U.S. dollar has served as the key currency of the international economic/financial system for over fifty years. This study assesses the proposition that the series of U.S. current-account deficits over the last twenty years will shortly exhaust the capability of the dollar to continue as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053993
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Small Developing Countries and Global Markets : Competing in the Big League
Kennes, Walter - 2000
More than half of the world's sovereign states are small economies. The majority are in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean Basin. For small economies, the globalization process involves opportunities, but also important risks because of their vulnerability and lack of diversification. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054281
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International Trade and Unemployment : On the Redistribution of Trade Gains When Firms Matter
De Pinto, Marco - 2013
Motivation -- International trade and unemployment - the worker-selection effect -- Unemployment benefits as redistribution scheme for trade gains- a positive analysis -- An optimal redistribution scheme for trade gains.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016398
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Economic Liberalization and Integration Policy : Options for Eastern Europe and Russia
Broadman, Harry G. - 2006
"After the 1998 Russian economic crisis, there are new opportunities for sustained growth in many countries of the former Soviet Union. Against this backdrop, the authors of this book analyze the dynamics of macroeconomic and structural developments in Eastern Europe and Russia, with special...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520527