Nurturing Institutions For A Resilient Caribbean

Author : Diether Beuermann,Moises Schwartz,Juan Pedro Schmid,Christian Dippel,Jeetendra Khadan,Jose Fajgenbaum,Claudio Loser,Allan Wright,Kimberly Waithe,Elton Bollers,Kevin Bonnett,Camila Mejia,Henry Mooney,Lodewijk Smets
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597823258

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Nurturing Institutions for a Resilient Caribbean by Diether Beuermann,Moises Schwartz,Juan Pedro Schmid,Christian Dippel,Jeetendra Khadan,Jose Fajgenbaum,Claudio Loser,Allan Wright,Kimberly Waithe,Elton Bollers,Kevin Bonnett,Camila Mejia,Henry Mooney,Lodewijk Smets Pdf

The book explores the historical development and status of political and economic institutions in The Caribbean. The Caribbean institutional reality is studied vis-à-vis best international practices. The main objective is identifying positive aspects and institutional areas in need of improvement that could facilitate a sustainable development path in The Caribbean.

Author : Diether W. Beuermann,Moisés J. Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1597823244

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Nurturing Institutions for a Resilient Caribbean by Diether W. Beuermann,Moisés J. Schwartz Pdf

Author : Colin Cannonier,Monica Galloway Burke
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030988654

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Contemporary Issues Within Caribbean Economies by Colin Cannonier,Monica Galloway Burke Pdf

The Caribbean economy remains a region with many paradoxes. Despite a relative abundance of natural and valuable resources, including its people, large segments of the region still grapple with significant levels of debt, environmental degradation, high unemployment in the formal sector, climate change, limited progress in technological innovation, increasing energy costs, remittance dependency, tourism dependency, loss of correspondent banking relations, exchange rate, noncommunicable diseases, and domestic politics to name more than a few. The poorest countries still lag and remain far more vulnerable to external factors related to trade and global financial sector issues. This edited volume takes a closer look at the contemporary issues related to the economies of the Caribbean. The book provides an added dimension in that each of the chapters includes the contributions of a scholar with lived experiences in and knowledge of the region. Indeed, the book underscores the detailed evidence-based research and perspectives on topics providing insights into the current landscape of the Caribbean. Ultimately, understanding the Caribbean in its varied contexts is an important milestone in pursuing policies that will contribute to flourishing economies replete with sustained growth and development.

Author : OECD,United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean,CAF Development Bank of Latin America,European Union
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264313767

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Latin American Economic Outlook 2019 Development in Transition by OECD,United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean,CAF Development Bank of Latin America,European Union Pdf

The Latin American Economic Outlook 2019: Development in Transition (LEO 2019) presents a fresh analytical approach in the region. It assesses four development traps relating to productivity, social vulnerability, institutions and the environment.

Author : Jeetendra Khadan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031546563

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Unraveling Race, Politics, and Gender in Trinidad and Tobago’s Economic Development by Jeetendra Khadan Pdf

Author : Dominic de Cogan,Alexis Brassey,Peter Harris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509958054

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Tax Law in Times of Crisis and Recovery by Dominic de Cogan,Alexis Brassey,Peter Harris Pdf

This book examines the relationship between tax law and crisis. In times of environmental, financial, and public health breakdown, policymakers look to tax for solutions. Yet these crises also constrain the ways in which tax liabilities can be imposed and administered, and limit the revenues that can be collected. What should governments do in these circumstances and what are the wider consequences for states, societies, and institutions such as the EU? The book shows how crises place strain on the basic functions of tax, including revenue-raising, institution-building, regulation, redistribution, and the structuring of society. These strains bear more heavily on some sections of business and society than others. This makes the tax consequences of crisis unpredictable. It also means that the best choice of legal response is not merely a technical matter. Instead, it engages deeper attitudes towards crisis relief, change, social values, and democratic control. These issues are highlighted by COVID-19 but are of utmost lasting importance. The book takes a comprehensive approach and looks in more depth at the systemic roles that crises play in contemporary tax systems. It features an impressive cast of leading researchers across multiple jurisdictions and is essential for policymakers and scholars alike.

Author : Donavon Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000954920

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Rethinking Democracy and Governance by Donavon Johnson Pdf

Democracy can be understood as a concept as well as a system of government associated with certain values, including transparency, accountability, the protection of rights, and non-oppressive government. This cutting edge new book explores the current contours of democracy and asks important questions such as: Does contemporary democracy mean the same thing that it did centuries ago? Are the longstanding assumptions about democracy and good governance sustainable in the face of digital transformation, paradigm shifts, and the liberalization of knowledge? Is democracy still applicable in the way that it has been traditionally envisioned? Gathering together insights from academics and practitioners with expertise on democracy and governance in the Caribbean context, this book is designed to spark a conversation about the ways in which appetites for democracy may be shifting in the Caribbean and beyond, exploring the conditions that brings these shifts to bear. Section one focuses on conceptual pieces that investigate democracy and good governance, their definition, and comparative analysis of how the conceptualization of democracy can shape outcomes in different governmental contexts. Section two explores the ways in which events, trends, and technologies have impacted democratic or undemocratic values and attitudes. Section three examines shifts in democratic inclination in the 21st century. Together the chapters represent an overdue study of the foundational governmental system of our time in a region that has historically been overlooked. Rethinking Democracy and Governance: Perspectives from the Caribbean is required reading for students of governance, public administration, and public policy.

Author : Shariq A. Siddiqui,David A. Campbell
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781035306572

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Philanthropy in the Muslim World by Shariq A. Siddiqui,David A. Campbell Pdf

Philanthropy plays an essential role in Muslim practice around the world. Using a new framing, Philanthropy in the Muslim World contributes to the literature by adding Muslim-majority countries that have not been previously included in cross national philanthropy volumes as well as countries that have important Muslim minority communities.

Author : Hilary Robertson-Hickling
Publisher : HopeRoad
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781908446190

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White Squall on the Land by Hilary Robertson-Hickling Pdf

;White Squall on the Land does not flinch from the uncomfortable truths, yet the author's deep commitment to the people she interviews transforms the book into a story of resilience and hope.' Leo Zeilig White Squall on the Land: Narratives of Resilient Caribbean People represents the synthesis of thinking about Caribbean Migration, and mental health. The book links the experience of the home community in the Caribbean to the experience of those who have continued the Caribbean migration process to England. The ongoing struggle against "white squall", a colloquial name for the hunger and deprivation that has plagued the people of the Caribbean for centuries.

Author : Kim Williams-Pulfer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978834460

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Get Involved! by Kim Williams-Pulfer Pdf

Philanthropy is commonly depicted as a universal practice and is either valued for supporting community transformation or critiqued for limiting social justice. However, dominant definitions and even popular connotations tend to privilege wealthy Western approaches. Using the Caribbean as a rich site of observance and concentrating on the island nation-state of The Bahamas, Get Involved! uncovers the hidden and under-documented activities of “philanthropy from below,” revealing a broader conception of philanthropy and civil society, especially within Black and other historically marginalized populations. Kim Williams-Pulfer draws on narrative analysis from enslavement to the current post-post-colonial moment, depicting the repertoires and practices of primarily Afro-Bahamians through the stories emerging from history (including the transnational observations of Zora Neale Hurston, social movements, and political and social institution building), the arts (from Junkanoo, literature, and visual practices), to the lived experiences of contemporary civil society leaders. Get Involved! shows the long history and continued significance of civil society and philanthropic engagement in The Bahamas, the circum-Caribbean, and the wider African Diaspora. Junkanoo is the national cultural festival of The Bahamas. It fosters a sense of community pride, identity, companionship, spirituality and unity. Watch a video about Junknoo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnMpMesNb1Q&t=14s

Author : Robert Looney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429555657

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Handbook of Caribbean Economies by Robert Looney Pdf

This volume aims to illustrate the uniqueness of the economies of the countries and territories of the Caribbean as well as the similarities they share with other regions. While most countries in the region share many of the characteristics of middle-income countries, theirs is a matter of extremes. Their generally small size suggests a fragility not found elsewhere. While much of the world is beginning to feel some effects of climate change, the Caribbean is ground zero. These factors suggest a difficult road ahead, but the chapters presented in this volume aim to help to spur the search for creative solutions to the region’s problems. The chapters, written by expert contributors, examine the Caribbean economies from several perspectives. Many break new ground in questioning past policy mindsets, while developing new approaches to many of the traditional constraints limiting growth in the region. The volume is organized in four sections. Part I examines commonalities, including issues surrounding small economies, tourism, climate change and energy security. Part II looks at obstacles to sustained progress, for example debt, natural disasters and crime. In Part III chapters consider the specific role of external influences, including the USA and the European Union, the People's Republic of China, as well as regional co-operation. The volume concludes in Part IV with country case studies intended to provide a sense of the diversity that runs through the region.

Author : Simon Hollis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429667053

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Resilience in the Pacific and the Caribbean by Simon Hollis Pdf

This book critically examines the global diffusion and local reception of resilience through the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programmes in Pacific and Caribbean island states. Global efforts to strengthen local disaster resilience capacities have become a staple of international development activity in recent decades, yet the successful implementation of DRR projects designed to strengthen local resilience remains elusive. While there are pockets of success, a gap remains between global expectations and local realities. Through a critical realist study of global and local worldviews of resilience in the Pacific and Caribbean islands, this book argues that the global advocacy of DRR remains inadequate because of a failure to prioritise a person-orientated ethics in its conceptualization of disaster resilience. This regional comparison provides a valuable lens to understand the underlying social structures that makes resilience possible and the extent to which local governments, communities and persons interpret and modify their behaviour on risk when faced with the global message on resilience. This book will be of much interest to students of resilience, risk management, development studies, and area studies.

Author : Denny Lewis-Bynoe
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849291460

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Achieving a Resilient Future for Small States by Denny Lewis-Bynoe Pdf

The Caribbean faces numerous economic, social and environmental challenges, with current projections predicting the road ahead to be filled with low levels of growth, high debt and low resilience. In Achieving a Resilient Future for Small States: Caribbean 2050, the contributors set out a long-term, research-based strategy for avoiding these projections, recommending a number of policy interventions aimed at building the region’s resilience and development prospects. Written by influential analysts and researchers and drawing on a wide cross-section of regional stakeholders and thought leaders, the study contains an assessment of the main challenges and opportunities for the region, scenario modelling of where the region could be by 2050, and a broad vision for the region with sector specific goals of how to get there.

Author : Kenneth Hall,Myrtle Chuck-A-Sang
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1466911042

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Caribbean Community: the Struggle for Survival by Kenneth Hall,Myrtle Chuck-A-Sang Pdf

The papers which comprise this publication, The Caribbean Community: The Struggle for Survival represents the Editor's choice from among thousands of articles, books and other commentaries that have provided clear and reasoned responses and solutions to inform and guide Caribbean leadership and the people of the Region. They also take a comprehensive look at regional intergration and serve as a guide to those with an interest in following the development in the Carribean Community. The book offers prescriptions for our success as a Community which are predicated on advice regarding what our political leaders should do in a normal context of the evolution of the Community. These prescriptions are based on sound scholarship and competent analysis. The book is an invaluable addition to the existing literature on Caribbean integration and should be part of any compendium on the study of the subject.

Author : Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-wagner,Dennis J Gayle
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019327290

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Caribbean Public Policy by Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-wagner,Dennis J Gayle Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive overview of public policy issues in the region, looking in particular at these important themes: economic policy, regionalism and integration, education and culture, health care, labor and migration, gender, drug abuse and narcotrafficking, the environment, and telecommunications.