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Handbook of Caribbean Economies

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Looney, Robert E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Colección:Routledge International Handbooks Ser.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Endorsements
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of boxes
  • List of contributors
  • Preface
  • Foreword by Sir Ronald Sanders
  • 1. Introduction
  • PART I: Commonalities
  • 2. An alternative policy approach to growth and stabilization in small open economies
  • 3. Impact of climate change on Caribbean economies
  • 4. Caribbean energy security: Regional profile and challenges to integration
  • 5. The Caribbean holds its own in global tourism competition
  • PART II: Obstacles to sustained progress
  • 6. CARICOM and that vexing issue of size and viability
  • 7. Debt and fiscal constraints
  • 8. Crime, violence and drugs in the Caribbean
  • 9. It's complicated: The Caribbean's relationship to white-collar crime
  • 10. Caribbean natural disasters and country/regional responses
  • PART III: External influences
  • 11. Why and how to use fiscal policy to target the exchange rate
  • 12. Venezuela: The descent into a 'soft state'
  • 13. The external economic relations of the Caribbean: A comparison between the USA and the European Union
  • 14. China's increasing influence in Central America and the Caribbean
  • 15. Regional cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean: New challenges and agendas
  • PART IV: Country case studies
  • 16. The Puerto Rican economy
  • 17. Haiti
  • 18. The Cuban economy: Socialist stagnation with Caribbean characteristics
  • 19. Trinidad and Tobago
  • 20. Belize
  • 21. Guyana and the advent of world-class petroleum finds
  • 22. Development and underperformance in the Barbados economy, 1946-2018
  • 23. Suriname
  • 24. The Bahamas: Facing a period of climate change and slow growth
  • 25. The Cayman Islands
  • 26. Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean Basin: A comparative analysis of models and trajectories
  • 27. The Dominican Republic
  • 28. The Jamaican economy: A Caribbean success story at last?
  • 29. The Dutch Caribbean
  • 30. Epilogue
  • Index