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National accounts of Caribbean countries: methodologies, sources and quality, and a comparative Caribbean study
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued:
- 1998-12-07
- Physical Description
- 41 p. : tabls.
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Summary Reviews the methodologies used to derive production accounts. Looks at the non-financial corporate sector, the financial corporate sector, the government sector, the houshold sector and the external sector. Approaches to examining GDP are examined. Agriculture, mining and quarrying, manufa... -
Globalization of financial markets: implications for the Caribbean
- Author(s):
- Henry, Lester
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued:
- 1999-06-01
- Physical Description
- 32 p. : diagrs., tabls.
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Introduction Globalization can be defined in terms of the internationalization of production [Goode, 1998, p.125], or in terms of the internationalization of markets [Lloyd, 1998, p. 163]. The former recognizes the fact that even relatively minor products are frequently found to be made with co... -
Recent trade performance of Caribbean countries
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued:
- 1999-12-30
- Physical Description
- 42 p. : tabls.
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Executive Summary The paper analyzes the evolution of trade patterns of the countries comprising the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC); with the following integration groupings: Andean Community, the Central American Common Market (CACM);, the Southern Cone Common Market (MERC... -
Trade policy in CARICOM: overview of the main trade policy measures
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued:
- 1999-12-30
- Physical Description
- 31 p. : tabls.
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Executive Summary This paper reviews trade policy regimes in CARICOM countries during the 1980s and 1990s. CARICOM trade policy regimes have undergone substantial changes in the 1990s reflecting the desire of the grouP's member countries to move away from inwardlooking to more outward-oriented grow... -
Trade and the environment in the context of the World Trade Organization
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued:
- 1998-01-05
- Physical Description
- 18 p.
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Summary The Uruguay Round of trade talks sought to bring agriculture and textiles progressively under the ambit of international trade rules and regulations. It also sought to extend the coverage of international trade rules to trade in services, intellectual property rights and trade-related inv... -
Tax performance and reform in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
- Author(s):
- Ramsaran, Ramesh
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued:
- 1999-06-01
- Physical Description
- 43 p. : diagrs., tabls.
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Introduction Based on the evidence of the last few decades, it is widely accepted that the State can be an obstacle to development. The corollary to this, of course, is that public policy can play a pivotal role in creating a growth-oriented environment and in promoting change. Not surprisingly, ... -
A review of social development in the Caribbean in the nineties: World Summit for Social Development (WSSD)+5
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued:
- 1999-11-30
- Physical Description
- 46 p. : tabls.
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Summary Following the World Summit for Social Development steps were taken by the entire United Nations system to support national governments in their efforts to implement the agenda of the Summit. This document assesses developments in health, education, crime and violence, drugs and migration f... -
Review of Caribbean economic performance, 1997: based on data for the period January to June 1997
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued:
- 1997-12-29
- Physical Description
- 28 p. : tabls.
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Summary An examination of first semester performance provided scant hope for a prosperous 1997. Preliminary indications suggested that output did not increase as quickly across the Caribbean as it did in the first semester of 1996. Fiscal deficits increased in most countries, mainly because of bu... -
Summary of Caribbean economic performance, 1998
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued:
- 1999-11-01
- Physical Description
- 42 p. : tabls.
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Summary Structural reforms and other economic policies; economic activity, inflation and employment; monetary developments and changes in public finance; international trade and payments - These are some of the areas examined in this review of the performance of Caribbean economies in 1998. A stati... -
Review of Caribbean economic and social performance in the 1980's and 1990's
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued:
- 1999-11-30
- Physical Description
- 39 p. : diagrs., tabls.
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Introduction The integration of the world economy gathered momentum in the mid-1980s and continued during the 1990s, through increased trade and financial flows around the world, and the establishment and strengthening of linkages related to the production and distribution of goods and services... -
Economic profiles of Caribbean countries
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued:
- 1999-10-18
- Physical Description
- 69 p. : tabls.
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Introduction With its programme of assistance to the Caribbean, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean has prepared these economic profiles for 26 independent and non-independent countries of the Caribbean subregion. These cou... -
Summary of Caribbean economic performance, 1996
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued:
- 1997-06-18
- Physical Description
- 34 p. : diagrs., tabls.
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Summary Notes that the policy objectives facing Caribbean countries in 1996 were remarkably similar across the broad spectrum of countries surveyed. Examines the performance of the economies of Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the Netherlan... -
Evolution of fiscal policy in the Caribbean: based on data for the period 1987-1996
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued:
- 1997-12-31
- Physical Description
- 28 p. : diagrs., tabls.
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Summary Fiscal performance showed modest improvement during the period under review. Deficits contracted and so did national debts. This was possible however only because of reduced spending since revenues - capital, recurrent, and grants in aid - fell. Governments found it easier to reduce spen...
