Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Why This Study? -- Key Results -- Outline of the Report -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Stylized Facts -- Overview of...

Cover -- The Modern Caribbean Economy, Volume II: Economic Development and Public Policy Challenges -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1: Public Policy and Economic Growth: Some Insights into the Caribbean Experience: Ramesh Ramsaran -- CHAPTER 2: Towards an Alternative...

Cover -- The Modern Caribbean Economy, Volume I: Alternative Perspectives and Policy Implications -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1: The Contribution of Canadian Economic Thought to Caribbean Political Economy: A Preliminary Investigation: Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi --...

The paper examines the determinants of employment growth, drawing on data available across a sample of Caribbean countries. To that end, the paper analyzes estimates of the employment-output elasticity and the response of employment growth to major sources of labor market determinants, in the...

It is typically assumed that countries in the Caribbean suffer from a lack of output and export diversification. Contrary to this popular perception, we find no evidence that output variability is higher in Caribbean countries than in larger, more diversified, developing economies. In addition,...