Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries globally, and it is a
primary contributor to the economies of most Caribbean countries. The
tourism industry directly raises employment and income levels, and is one
of the most important industries for fostering growth. Within the last few
decades, it has become very clear that both Jamaica and Trinidad and
Tobago must continue to diversify, particularly in the tourism sector, if
they are to sustain growth. However, despite their tourism potential, both

Relative to GDP, Guyana is one of the largest recipients of remittance flows
in the world, receiving on average 17 percent of its GDP. In past decades,
these transfers have increased considerably compared with other inflows,
including foreign direct investment and international aid. Yet little is
known about what macroeconomic factors explain their movement, or how
they impact Guyana’s economy. This article investigates the macroeconomic
determinants of remittance flows to Guyana. We estimate a

Small developing states will face further erosion of Special and Differential
Treatment in the present WTO negotiations, and will be treated as
essentially equal players in the multilateral trading system. But
vulnerabilities associated with size, location, and governance capacity,
limit the ways in which these states can participate. In debates addressing
these issues, small states appeal to ‘justice’ in respect of how trade rules
should be re-formulated. This study finds that their perception of justice is

Countries of the Caribbean could address their economic vulnerabilities by
pursuing a development strategy built around the green economy, which
could also address their social and environmental challenges. Using the
draft list of green goods currently being negotiated by member countries of
the World Trade Organisation, the study calculates indicators of comparative
advantage for 10 Caribbean countries. The results suggest that for
most countries, comparative advantages exist for less than 10 percent of

This paper uses Labour Force Survey data from 2001 and 2005 to examine
ethnic pay disparities in Belize. Empirical findings suggest that, the
majority ethnic group, Mestizo, earned, on average, statistically less than
the Creole, Garifuna and Mixed groups in both years. Most of the pay
differential was attributable to endowment rather than treatment
differentials. An important policy issue uncovered here relates to the
labour market position of the minority Maya group. Our estimates suggest

This paper explores the restructuring of the Belizean banana industry,
following the phase-out of preferential trade. The industry has sought to
access a high value export niche based on rigorous quality standards.
Drawing from 121 qualitative interviews with plantation workers,
managers, and owners, the analysis focuses on the tactics deployed by
owners and management teams to maintain a reliable workforce while
containing costs, and the responses of workers to the changing conditions

This article examines as ‘virtual disaster tourism’ the US-internet public’s mass consumption of digitized images of, and their virtual participation in, the humanitarian response to the destruction wrought by the January 2010 Port-au-Prince earthquake.

This paper estimates the trade, revenue and welfare effects of the proposed Caribbean Community (CARICOM)–Canada free trade agreement (FTA) on CARICOM countries, using a partial equilibrium model. The welfare analysis also takes into account the Economic Partnership Agreement, signed in 2008 by the CARIFORUM countries (CARICOM and the Dominican Republic) and the European Union. The revealed comparative advantage index, trade complementarity index, and transition probability matrices are used to examine the dynamics of comparative advantage for CARICOM country exports to Canada.

Since the January 2010 earthquake, Haiti has been an incredibly popularlocation for non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This has led to aninflux of foreigners from around the world, who have taken on various jobsand projects in Haiti.

Dutch settlements on the coastal plain locked Guyana into polder agriculture and, inadvertently, ensured a small, widely dispersed population. The former requires high cost drainage, irrigation and agricultural production. The latter also implies high costs, as infrastructure, for example,—cannot be distributed over a large enough population. Wages were therefore suppressed by immigration, which increased the elasticity of supply of labour, and facilitated the playing off of one ethnic group against the other.