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Productive development policies in Trinidad and Tobago : a critical review

Moya, Ramiro A.; Mohammed, Anne-Marie; Sookram, Sandra - 2010

Even as Trinidad and Tobago seeks productive diversification away from the energy sector, the process underlying the country s productive development policies (PDP) is in a state of transition from state-directed industrial policy to a newer approach with extensive private-public participation....

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Transitioning the tax system to take advantage of the natural gas-rich economy in Trinidad and Tobago

Mercer-Blackman, Valerie - 2015

In this paper, the author examines the current structure of the tax system for hydrocarbon production in Trinidad and Tobago in light of global trends in hydrocarbon taxation. Some of the main features of the tax regime are compared and benchmarked against what the literature has defined as best...

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Privately managed public secondary schools and academic achievement in Trinidad and Tobago : evidence from rule-based student assignments

Beuermann, Diether W.; Jackson, Clement; Sierra, Ricardo - 2015

Many nations allow private entities to manage publicly funded schools and grant them greater flexibility than traditional public schools. However, isolating the causal effect of attending these privately managed public schools relative to attending traditional public schools is difficult because...

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The impact of EU anti-dumping duties on urea ammonium nitrate Solution

Goodman, Samuel M. - 2020

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An econometric analysis of energy revenue and government expenditure shocks on economic growth in Trinidad and Tobago

Khadan, Jeetendra - 2016

Energy revenues represent roughly 45 percent of Trinidad and Tobago's GDP and are highly volatile since they are correlated with the price of oil and gas. Hence, sharp changes in energy prices, whether temporary or sustained, can have important consequences for economic growth and overall...

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What is a good school, and can parents tell? : evidence on the multidimensionality of school output

Beuermann, Diether W.; Jackson, Clement; Navarro-Sola, Laia - 2019

Is a school's impact on high-stakes test scores a good measure of its overall impact on students? Do parents value school impacts on high-stakes tests, longer-run outcomes, or both? To answer the first question, we apply quasi-Experimental methods to data from Trinidad and Tobago and estimate...

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Race-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wages gaps in Trinidad and Tobago

Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018

In the light of Trinidad and Tobago’s colonial history, its labour market is characterized by two about equal sized majority racial groups that had during colonialism been highly segregated in terms of education, occupation, industry and sector of work and facing a large institutionalized pay...

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Privatization and investment : crowding-out effects vs financial diversification

Girmens, Guillaume; Guillard, Michel - 2002

In this paper, we study the effect of share issue privatization (SIP) on private investment and financial market under … privatization (crowding-out effect). Vice-versa with risk aversion and perfect intertemporal substitutability (diversification … of the crowding-out effect, when the revenues of privatization are devoted to present public consumption. …

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Selling company shares to reluctant employees : France Telecom's experience

Degeorge, François; Jenter, Dirk; Moel, Alberto; … - 2002

In 1997, France Telecom, the state-owned French telephone company, went through a partial privatization. We adapt a …

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Postprivatization corporate governance : the role of ownership structure and investor protection

Boubakri, Narjess; Cosset, Jean-Claude; Guedhami, Omrane - 2003

We investigate the role of ownership structure and investor protection in postprivatization corporate governance. We find that the government relinquishes control over time, mainly to the benefit of local institutions and foreign investors. We also show that private ownership tends to...

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