Trade and development issues in CARICOM : key considerations for navigating development /

"This collection of CARICOM-specific research represents a spectrum of writing on interrelated themes of trade, growth, debt and the environment as it applies to development prospects in the Caribbean. The contributors include a mix of researchers, at various levels of experience and institutio...

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Další autoři: Hosein, R. (Roger) (Editor), Gonzales, Anthony P. (Editor), Seecharan, Ranita (Editor), Gookool, Rebecca (Editor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Mona, Kingston, Jamaica : The University of the West Indies Press, 2022.
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3664179
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  • 1. Insights into the Evolution of the CARICOM's Trade / Roger Hosein
  • International Trade and the CARICOM Economies
  • CARICOM's Trade Policy Regime
  • Economic Integration in the Caribbean
  • CARICOM's Intraregional Trade Profile
  • Intraregional Services Trade Performance
  • Conclusion
  • 2. Premature Deindustrialization / Nirvana Satnarine-Singh
  • Defining Deindustrialization
  • Kaldorian Economics and Manufacturing as an Engine for Growth
  • Natural Deindustrialization versus Premature Deindustrialization
  • Deindustrialization under Natural Conditions
  • Dutch Disease and Deindustrialization
  • Premature Deindustrialization and Economic Development
  • How Does Premature Deindustrialization Affect Economic Growth: Baumol's Cost Disease
  • Overview of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Deindustrialization in Trinidad and Tobago
  • Shift Share Analysis of Labour Productivity Growth
  • Shift Share Results
  • Conclusion and Policy Prescriptions for Guyana, Suriname and Grenada
  • 3. The Hillman Condition and Its Empirical Validity in CARICOM Economies / Roger Hosein
  • Revealed Comparative Advantage
  • The Hillman Condition
  • Data and Methodology
  • Results
  • Conclusion
  • 4. The Practicality of Regional Import Substitution as a Strategy for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean / Winston Moore
  • Brief Review of Previous Literature: Import Substitution in Developing Countries
  • Infant Industry Argument
  • Empirical Methodology
  • Empirical Results: Opportunities for Regional Import Substitution
  • Potential Impact on Key Macroeconomic Variables
  • Conclusions
  • 5. Trade and the Environment and Caribbean SIDS / Michelle Scobie
  • Global Environmental Governance
  • Climate Change
  • Fishing
  • Trade, Biodiversity and BioTrade
  • Trade, Shipping and the Environment
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Comparative Review of the Services Trade Performance of CARICOM / Ramesh Chaitoo
  • Some Caveats
  • Services Trade Trends in CARICOM
  • The Competitiveness of Service Industries in CARICOM
  • Incentives for Investment in Service Industries
  • Considerations Re: Policymaking in CARICOM
  • The Role of National Coalitions of Services Industries
  • Lessons from Other Countries
  • The ICT/BPO Sector in CARICOM
  • Cultural or Creative Industries
  • The Approach of Mauritius
  • Skills for New Service Industries
  • Conclusions
  • 7. Assessing the Depth of CARICOM Market Integration and Trade Performance / Anthony Peter Gonzales
  • Protectionism and Liberalization in Market Integration
  • Normative Stages of Integration
  • Stages of CARICOM Integration
  • Measuring the Depth of Market Integration and Trade Deepening
  • Conclusion
  • 8. An Empirical Assessment of Intra-Industry Trade / Roger Hosein
  • Measuring IIT
  • CARICOM IIT Measures
  • Model Specification
  • Econometric Methodology
  • Fractional Probit Estimator
  • Results
  • Sectoral IIT and RTAs
  • IIT by Commodity
  • Intra-CARICOM IIT
  • Conclusion and Policy Recommendations
  • 9. Small Country Trade Competitiveness and Export Sustainability / Anne-Marie Mohammed
  • Literature Review
  • Methodology
  • Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA)
  • Trade Can and RCA
  • Analysis
  • Revealed Comparative Advantage
  • Trade CAN
  • Trade Can and RCA
  • Generalized Policy Directives
  • Conclusion
  • 10. Debt Burden in Small Island Caribbean States and Prospects for Debt Relief / Machel Pantin
  • pt. 1 The Evolution of Caribbean Debt
  • Decomposing the Caribbean Debt
  • The Heterogeneity of Caribbean Debt
  • The Debt Repayment Burden
  • Unpleasant Fiscal Arithmetic
  • pt. 2 Structural Factors Contributing to Debt Accumulation over Time
  • The Impact of Disasters and Climate Change
  • pt. 3 Proposals for Debt Reduction
  • Proposal by the World Bank
  • Proposal by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

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