The authors study the economic performance of ten Caribbean islands in two groups: six small islands from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and four larger islands: Barbados, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. They compute external shocks together with each island's performance response to them. Some islands resorted inordinately to external financing to cope with adverse shocks. Others tried to compensate by stimulating...
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تفاصيل
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1995/11/30
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ورقة عمل خاصة ببحوث السياسات
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WPS1544
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2010/7/01
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Economic performance in small open economies : the Caribbean experience, 1980-1992
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terms of trade shock