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Mental Health in Jamaica: An approach to awareness and treatment in children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The awareness, perception and treatment of Autism was studied during a service study abroad class to Petersfield, Jamaica during the winters of 2013 and 2014. The program was developed to gain a basic understanding of the etiology of the disorder, and to
Curran, Sam, Naqvi, Lilly
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A retrospective on the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season

open access: yesWeather, EarlyView.
The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season was intermittent, with extended quiet periods separated by three clusters of activity. The broad‐scale conditions were often unfavourable for cyclogenesis and common drivers of activity such as La Niña were weak, but well above‐average sea temperatures still supported intense storms.
Charles W. Powell
wiley   +1 more source

Good Corporate Governance: How Jamaica Will Enter the Global Village [PDF]

open access: yes
Jamaica in order to effectively interface with the global village has been forced to change its ethical mindset, which has deterred the practice of good corporate governance and its worldview of how to aggressively achieve business success in an era ...
Peter W Jones
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No. 04: The Urban Food System of Kingston, Jamaica [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Kingston is a colonial city and, like the country of Jamaica more generally, was the product of early mercantilism moulded by colonialism, sugar plantations and slavery.
Ferguson, Therese   +4 more
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International Tourism in the Global South: Revealing an Extractive Development Process

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Hosting international tourism remains a key development strategy for many Global South countries to generate economic growth, government revenue and employment. However, this conventional wisdom can be contested: tourism may instead be seen as an extractive process that disrupts livelihoods, ecosystems and host economies.
Julia Jeyacheya, Mark P. Hampton
wiley   +1 more source

Insolvency – Temporary management of an insolvent bank [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
In this paper the author analyses the arguments put forward by parties in the case of Century National Merchant Bank v Davies before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council pursuant to an appeal from the Court of Appeal of Jamaica [1998] 2 WLR 779 ...
Ali, Shazeeda A.
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Global Inequality of Opportunity in Education Decreased During the 20th Century

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We document changes in global inequality of opportunity in education for women and men born between 1941 and 1983, using individual‐level census and survey data on 46.7 million individuals from 95 countries, representing all major regions of the world.
Michael Grätz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Green Finance on Economic Growth and Renewable Energy in Developing Countries: A Panel Cointegration Analysis

open access: yesNatural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This empirical study examines the impact of green finance on economic growth and renewable energy in a group of 76 developing nations in 2010–2019. Results from a cointegration analysis, vector error correction model, and Granger causality test confirm a cointegrating relationship between green finance, renewable energy, economic growth, and ...
Xuan‐Hoa Nghiem   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dependent Development: The Exceptional Case of Jamaica [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The present research assesses persistent underdevelopment and poverty in Jamaica through analysis of dependent development theories.
Santia, Martina
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