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Jamaica; First Review Under the Extended Arrangement Under the Extended Fund Facility and Request for Modification of Performance Criteria
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This paper discusses Jamaica’s First Review Under the Extended Arrangement Under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and Request for Modification of Performance Criteria. All end-June quantitative conditions and all structural benchmarks were met. The 2013/14 budget is in line with the...
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The Meanings Jamaicans Associate with Corporal Punishment
Burke, Taniesha; Sutherland, Olga - In: Psychology and Developing Societies 26 (2014) 1, pp. 59-89
This study examined the meanings Jamaicans associate with corporal punishment and its perceived effects on children, caregivers’/parents’ relationship with children and in a broader sense, Jamaican culture. A total of 183 readers’ comments on 13 articles that focused on...
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Technology adaptation and employment in the bauxite/alumina industry of Jamaica.
O, Davies; Davis, C; Morrison, D - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1984
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the economic role of the bauxite aluminium industry in Jamaica - examines foreign …
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AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF JAMAICA’S IMPORT DEMAND FUNCTION WITH THE US AND UK
Hibbert, Kira; Thaver, Ranjini; Hutchinson, Mark - In: The International Journal of Business and Finance Research 6 (2012) 1, pp. 109-120
examine the short-run and long run elasticities in both models. In the case of Jamaica-US trade, we find that income has a … Jamaica-UK trade, GDP, and volatility are less elastic in the short run than in the long run, but real foreign reserves and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206124
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Statistik des Auslandes / Länderbericht. Jamaika
Deutschland <Bundesrepublik> / Statistisches Bundesamt - Stuttgart ; Mainz : Kohlhammer - 1984; 1986
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Poverty and life expectancy : the Jamaica paradox
Riley, James C. - 2005
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Electronic commerce and music business development in Jamaica : a portal to the new economy?
2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004852054
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ASSESSING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF JAMAICAN ACKEE IN LIGHT OF THE CHALLENGES FACED BY SUGAR AND BANANAS
Hyatt, Karl - Caribbean Agro-Economic Society - CAES - 2007
partners. The preferential market access, from which Jamaica and other ACP (African Caribbean and Pacific) states benefit …
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Efficiency and Convergence in the Jamaican banking sector 1998-2007
Matthews, Kent Gerard; Daley, Jenifer - Economics Section, Cardiff Business School - 2009
Deregulation, re-regulation and continuing globalisation embody an imperative that banks increase efficiency to survive. We employ non-parametric bootstrap DEA to measure technical efficiency among Jamaican banks between 1998 and 2007. In addition, we test for conditional convergence to identify...
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Measuring post-crisis productivity for Jamaican banks
Matthews, Kent Gerard; Daley, Jenifer - Economics Section, Cardiff Business School - 2009
The study examines the changes to total factor productivity of Jamaican banks between 1998 and 2007. Using Data Envelopment Analysis with bootstrap to construct a Malmquist index, bank productivity is measured and decomposed into technical progress and efficiency. The results suggest an...
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