Ex Ante Cost Benefit Analyses of Community-Based DRR Interventions in the Caribbean [PDF]
, 2015 This report presents a study on the cost benefit analyses (CBA) and cost effectiveness analysis (CEA) of community-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) interventions in the Caribbean.
Jerath, Meenakshi, Sarmiento, Juan Pablo
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Aftermaths of Current Account Crisis: Export Growth or Import Contraction? [PDF]
This paper defines current account crises as current account adjustments that occur in the aftermath of a sizable reduction in capital flows. We study the characteristics of such current account adjustments, particularly whether they are executed through
Agustín Villar +2 more
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The public sector in the Caribbean : issues and reform options [PDF]
The public sector's performance in the Caribbean varies, in reducing poverty and in creating an enabling environment for growth. Barbados and the Bahamas have been the high performers, Guyana and the Dominican Republic have been sluggish, and the other ...
Swaroop, Vinaya
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The price competitiveness of small island states as tourist destinations [PDF]
, 2009 This paper attempts to assess one of the greatest challenges encountered by small island states to find appropriate economic activities which generate income for their citizens.
Vella, Isabelle
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EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements and ACP Integration [PDF]
The direct effects of EPAs on ACP countries arise from the requirement to eliminate tariffs on most imports from the EU. While consumers gain from cheaper imports, the government losses tariff revenue and producers face increased completion, implying ...
Chris Milner +2 more
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Social Media + SocietyChildren and young people’s online privacy is increasingly challenged by the datafication of the digital world, and this is an increasingly important area of policy concern.
Rys Farthing +5 more
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Education and development in the caribbean: a cointegration and causality approach [PDF]
This paper uses cointegration and vector error-correction models to analyse the causal relationship between education and development in Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago using annual time series data from 1964 to 1998.
Brian Francis, Sunday Iyare
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Pacific Islands' Bilateral Trade: The Role of Remoteness and of Transport Costs [PDF]
Bilateral trade of geographically distant countries is likely to be negatively affected by the distance separating them from their trading partners and positively affected by their remoteness, defined as the average weighted distance between two ...
Borgatti, Lisa
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Autumnal Bird Migration Over The Windward Caribbean Islands [PDF]
, 1985 Williams, Timothy C., , \u2764
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Natural Disasters and Remittances: Exploring the Linkages between Poverty, Gender, and Disaster Vulnerability in Caribbean SIDS [PDF]
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
Attzs, Marlene
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