Is There a Caribbean Sclerosis? Stagnating Economic Growth in the Caribbean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23524928 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Inder J Ruprah, Karl Alexander Melgarejo, Ricardo Sierra |
| Year | 2014 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Publisher | Inter-American Development Bank (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18235/0012625 |
| OpenAlex | W1962456708 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
This report addresses several critical questions regarding Caribbean nations. Does size matter for economic growth and volatility? To what degree has Caribbean economic growth been inferior to that of ROSE? What could account for the Caribbean growth gap and what economic policies might decision-makers adopt to promote higher and sustainable growth? The answers to these questions will support the overarching hypothesis that the Caribbean suffers sclerosis. The almost-exclusive focus on economic growth in this report does not imply that it should be the sole criterion to judge economic performance. Nevertheless, economic growth is the central concern of Caribbean policymakers, who recognize that it is critical to improve broad economic development, and hence to improve the welfare of Caribbean citizens. The central focus here is on six countries in the region, which will be referred to as the C6: The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. However, the analysis will sometimes include, most often in the aggregate, the countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). The six members of the OECS used in this report are Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Biology · Caribbean art · Caribbean island · Caribbean region · Development economics · Economics · Ethnology · Geography · Latin Americans · Political science · Ecology · Global Health and Epidemiology · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Migration and Labor Dynamics
The economics of development in small countries
Political Economy in Macroeconomics
The Size of Nations
Empirics for Growth and Distribution
Contractionary effects of devaluation
Regional cohesion
Firm Innovation in Emerging Markets
Do Natural Disasters Promote Long‐run Growth?
Volatility and Development
Sigma Convergence versus Beta Convergence
Institutions and Economic Performance
The Rise and Decline of Nations
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
The Death Toll from Natural Disasters
Rebalancing the Euro Area
The special working environment of senior administrators in small states
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States
A comparison of the economic performance of different micro-states, and between micro-states and larger countries
The demography of micro-states
Institutions and economic growth
Small island developing states and their economic vulnerabilities
Macroeconomic stability, investment and growth in developing countries
Rent seeking and economic growth
The macroeconomic consequences of disasters
Dynamic increasing returns, technology and economic growth in a small open economy
Does rising income increase or decrease damage risk from natural disasters
The Classical Approach to Convergence Analysis
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation
The Purchasing Power Parity Debate
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |