Caribbean Region Quarterly Bulletin: Volume 8, Issue 3: September 2019
Sep 2019
Author(s): Schmid, Juan Pedro;Wright, Allan;Bollers, Elton;Khadan, Jeetendra;Smets, Lodewijk;Mooney, Henry;Giles Álvarez, Laura;Waithe, Kimberly;Gauto, Victor;Zegarra, Maria Alejandra;Christie, Jason;Gomes, Zandra ;Baboolal, Denesh;Montano, Robin
Welcome to the September 2019 Caribbean Region Quarterly Bulletin. Infrastructure is the lifeblood of a country. However, low, and even declining, investments, insufficient maintenance and extreme…
Macroeconomic Fluctuations Under Natural Disaster Shocks in Central America and the Caribbean
Dec 2016
Author(s): Wright, Allan;Borda, Patrice
This paper examines the role of disaster shock in a one-sector, representative agent dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model (DSGE). First, it estimates a panel vector autoregresive (VAR) model…
Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in the Caribbean: Potential and Prospects
Nov 2016
Author(s): Bernal, Richard L.
China has recently become the third largest source of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the world and is a major source of development aid for developing countries, including those in the Caribbean…
Trade, Economic and Welfare Impacts of the CARICOM-Canada Free Trade Agreement
Oct 2016
Author(s): Khadan, Jeetendra;Hosein, Roger
This paper estimates the trade, revenue, and welfare effects of the proposedCaribbean Community (CARICOM)-Canada free trade agreement (FTA) on
CARICOM countries using a partial equilibrium…
Inventario de los registros civiles e identificación de América Latina y el Caribe
Sep 2010
Author(s): Harbitz, Mia Elisabeth;Benítez Molina, Juan Carlos;Arcos Axt, Iván
El objeto del presente documento es describir de forma breve las principales características del registro civil y la situación de identificación en los países miembros del Banco Interamericano de…