Biofuels Potential in Latin America and the Caribbean: Quantitative Considerations and Policy Implications for the Agricultural Sector [PDF]
Rising oil prices has led to increased interest to replace domestic demand for liquid fuels for transport (petrol and diesel) with biofuel production (ethanol and biodiesel).
Ludena, Carlos E. +2 more
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Cross-Border Investment in Small International Financial Centers [PDF]
We document and assess the role of small financial centers in the international financial system using a newly-assembled dataset. We present estimates of the foreign asset and liability positions for a number of the most important small financial centers,
Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Philip Lane
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The Fiscal Effects of Tariff Reduction in the Caribbean Community [PDF]
This paper explores the fiscal effects of tariff reduction for the Caribbean Community.The paper concludes that Caribbean countries are likely to experience short-run revenue shortfall as a consequence of trade liberalization.
Amos Peters
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The Timeliness of Drug Therapy in Colorectal and Prostate Cancer in Antigua and Barbuda: The Role of Disease Stage. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel)Bovell AAN, Ncayiyana J, Ginindza TG.
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The Current Status of New Antidiabetic Drugs
Journal of Pharmacopuncture, 2016 Sudhakar Pemminati +4 more
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NASA Thesaurus supplement: A four part cumulative supplement to the 1988 edition of the NASA Thesaurus (supplement 3) [PDF]
The four-part cumulative supplement to the 1988 edition of the NASA Thesaurus includes the Hierarchical Listing (Part 1), Access Vocabulary (Part 2), Definitions (Part 3), and Changes (Part 4).
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From Currency Unions to a World Currency: A Possibility? [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the main macroeconomic determinants of benefits and costs by undertaking processes of monetary integration, and investigate the possibility that currency unions could be lead to the creation of a global currency in
Davide Furceri
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Decomposing the great trade collapse : products, prices, and quantities in the 2008-2009 crisis [PDF]
The authors identifies a new set of stylized facts on the 2008-2009 trade collapse that they hope can be used to shed light on the importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade.
Haddad, Mona +2 more
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Global sulfur emissions in the 1990s [PDF]
This paper provides global and country by country estimates of sulfur emissions for the early and mid-1990s. Raw estimates are obtained in two ways. For countries with published data we compile that data from the available sources.
David I. Stern
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