The evaluation covers the cooperation of the Commission of the European Union (EC) with Jamaica during the period 2002-2009, although it has also taken account of subsequent developments. It covers two EDF periods, the 9th EDF (2002-07) and the 10th EDF (2008-13). In addition, it covers FLEX,...

This book surveys the role of Amsterdam’s Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It offers an historical-geographic perspective, linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the "Portuguese...

This paper explores the linkages between poverty and disaster vulnerability in the context of remittance flows to households in the Caribbean. Jamaica is used as the case study country. The paper discusses the channels through which natural disasters and remittances affect each other but also...