Finance and real development in the Caribbean
By: edited by Anthony Birchwood and Dave Seerattan.
Contributors: Monetary Studies Conference.
Publisher: Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies,University of the West Indies
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 565
ISBN-13: 978976818809X
Subjects: Monetary policy -- Caribbean Area -- Congresses; Economic development -- Caribbean Area; Currency boards -- Caribbean Area; Financial institutions -- Investments -- Caribbean Area; Free trade -- Caribbean Area
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Section A: Macroeconomics dynamics of the CARICOM states; title: Import productivity growth, capital deepening and Caribbean development: some theoretical insights / Vanus James; title: Monetary policy, central banks and economic performance in the Caribbean / Derick Boyd and Ron Smith; title: Human capital and economic growth: the case of Barbados / Daniel Boamah; title: Financing growth and development in the Caribbean: the role of the Caribbean Development Bank / Patrick Kendall, Carl Howell, Marco Petracco, Ian Durant, & Elmer Harris; title: Finance, investment and economic development: towards an investment-friendly financial environment / Sir Courtney N. Blackman.; title: Section B: Financing growth in the Caribbean; title: The international community and the Caribbean potential paths to achieving stability in development finance / Anston Rambarran & Kevin Finch; title: Financial development and economic growth in Guyana / Gobind Ganga; title: Analysis of saving behaviour in Guyana / Terron Khemraj & Anand Persaud; title: Tax reform and financial development in Trinidad and Tobago / Dave Seerattan.; title: Section C: An examination of special sectors in the Caribbean; title: Commercial banks and credit unions in Barbados: an empirical investigation / Anton Belgrave, Roland Craigwell & Winston Moore; title: An analysis of the manufacturing export sector in Jamaica in the nineties / Karl M. Bennett.; title: Section D: currency risk and prices; title: Past and present Currency Board experiments in Argentina / Esteban Pérez; title: Predictors of currency crises in fixed exchange rate regimes: lessons for the Caribbean from the case of of Argentina  / Marion Williams; title: A currency union for the Caribbean / DeLisle Worrell; title: Modelling exchange rate pass-through and inflation in Trinidad and Tobago / Janice Christopher-Nicholls & Leslie Ann De Vignes; title: Consumer price inflation and exchange rate pass-through in Jamaica / Lavern McFarlane; title: Currency crisis vulnerability: the case of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union / Karen P. Williams & Natasha N. Marquez; title: Estimates of the long-run equilibrium exchange rate in selected Caribbean countries / Winston Moore, Ryan Skeete & Kevin Greenidge.; title: Section E: Financial markets; title: A survey of capital market development in the Bahamas / Elvan Kayral-Morris; title: Financial market integration, arbitrage and interest rate parity in the Caribbean / Anthony Birchwood & Dave Seerattan.; title: Section F: Emerging trade issues; title: Trade and development issues regarding services in CARICOM / Ramesh Chaitoo; title: Trade liberalisation and the Jamaican economy: prospects and effects of tariff adjustments / Suzette Hudson.; title: Section G: Economic governance of Caribbean countries; title: Debt and fiscal sustainability in Barbados / Xiomara Archibald, Kevin Greenidge & Carlos Holder; title: The implications of privatisation for the Eastern Caribbean countries / Patricia Welsh-Haynes.