Every discussion of the Caribbean states considers their characteristics as sea-locked countries, small economies … Caribbean Sea is the most important vehicle and the most challenging obstacle Caribbean countries have to connect with the world …. This report measures and analyzes the Caribbean region's air and maritime connectivity, by taking a sample of 15 countries …

Handling charges in Caribbean ports are two to three times higher than in similar ports in other regions of the world … a neighboring island no more than 100 miles away. The reasons for high port-handling costs are linked to procedural … performance of port management and operations. The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States shares the larger Caribbean region …

countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia in the past two decades. The analysis of the profile of …

The paper documents the major trends in financial development in Latin America and the Caribbean since the early 1990s …. The paper compares trends in Latin America and the Caribbean with those in Asia, Eastern Europe, and advanced countries … and compares countries within Latin America and the Caribbean. The findings show that financial systems in the Latin …

and Caribbean region appear to depart significantly from the rest of the world in these two basic relationships. Although …, Caribbean countries appear significantly less urbanized. However, analyses involving cross-country comparisons of urbanization …. This paper reexamines whether Latin America and Caribbean countries differ from the rest of the world in the basic stylized …