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Does Demand Volatility Lower Growth and Raise Inflation? Evidence from the Caribbean
Kandil, Magda E. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
inflation over the business cycle in a sample of fifteen Caribbean countries. In most countries, the evidence indicates the … shocks mainly affect output. The high variability of aggregate demand in Caribbean countries, frequently exposed to shocks …
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The Challenges of Fiscal Consolidation and Debt Reduction in the Caribbean
Yartey, Charles Amo; Narita, Machiko; Nicholls, Garth Peron - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper examines debt dynamics in the Caribbean and discusses policy options for reducing the high debt levels … for the Caribbean. The analysis shows that major debt reductions are associated with strong growth and decisive and …
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Labor Market Issues in the Caribbean: Scope to Mobilize Employment Growth
Kandil, Magda E.; Lindow, Genevieve; Mansilla, Mario; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
The paper examines the determinants of employment growth, drawing on data available across a sample of Caribbean … living standards in the Caribbean. …
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Wind characteristics on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico
Altaii, K; Farrugia, R.N - In: Renewable Energy 28 (2003) 11, pp. 1701-1710
Wind data was measured at a number of sites on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico over a 24 calendar-month time frame …
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Does Size Matter? Yes, If You are Caribbean!
Ruprah, Inder J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
. However, while some small economies have overcome the size hurdle, Caribbean countries have not. There is a widening growth … and GDP per capita gap between the Caribbean and other small economies. Further, the Caribbean countries¿ ability to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699075
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Social Policies and Labor Market Outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of the Existing Evidence
Bosch, Mariano; Manacorda, Marco - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
Latin America and the Caribbean have become in the last decade or so a formidable laboratory for the design and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700442
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2013 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hunger: Building resilience to achieve food and nutrition security
von Grebmer, Klaus; Headey, Derek; Bene, Christophe; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report—the eighth in an annual series—presents a multidimensional measure of national, regional, and global hunger. It shows that the world has made some progress in reducing hunger since 1990, but still has far to go. The 2013 GHI report focuses...
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Cohesión social y pacto fiscal. Cuestiones pendientes en ALC: una perspectiva desde Europa
Carbonell, Jesús Ruiz-Huerta - HAL - 2013
La cohesión social, concepto especialmente valorado como expresión y resultado del modelo social europeo y asociado al significado del estado de bienestar, quiere transmitir un conjunto de valores como el sentido de pertenencia, equilibrios en la gestión de los asuntos públicos, control de...
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Public sector efficiency: evidence for Latin America
Afonso, António; Romero, Alma; Monsalve, Emma - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2013
(DEA) efficiency scores for a sample of twenty-three Latin American and Caribbean Countries (LAC) to measure efficiency of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010761899
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Investigating the Business Cycle Properties of Remittances to the Caribbean
JACKMAN, Mahalia - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 14 (2014) 1, pp. 87-100
This paper investigates the business cycle properties of remittances to four Caribbean countries – Barbados, Dominica …
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