This article contends that knowledge brokerage should be recognized as a
key function of regional universities as Caribbean states seek to advance
the 2030 development agenda. As Caribbean universities evolve, public
engagement and linkage and exchange mechanisms that support the
developmental and entrepreneurial missions of modern universities need
to be strengthened. By detailing the case of a University of the West Indies-
Trinidad and Tobago RDI Fund project to demonstrate how the societal

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This article empirically examines whether and how remittances impact economic development in eleven Caribbean countries over the period 1975–2011. We employ the bounds test and ARDL framework to assess the existence of long-run relationships and causality, and adopt a countryspecific approach to accommodate differences among countries. We find evidence of heterogeneous long-run causal relationships in seven countries.

 
This article examines the direction of causality between energy consumption and economic development in thirteen Caribbean small island developing states, using annual data from 1980 to 2011. We estimate a multivariate model that includes environmental emissions and we utilise the Toda-Yamamoto approach to Granger causality testing to determine causal links in each country. We find evidence of four different types of causal relationships. These results have implications for heterogeneous energy policies in Caribbean economies.