This research sought to assess the institutional performance of the
Government of Jamaica’s temporary cash transfer mechanism, the COVID-19
Allocation of Resources for Employees (CARE) Programme, which was introduced
in response to the economic and social shock occasioned by the COVID-19
pandemic. By largely drawing on thematically analysed qualitative secondary data
and a modified version of the “4Es” (economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and equity)
approach developed by the Department for International Development as a frame

 
The economies of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
(OECS) have been significantly impacted by the coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) pandemic. The economic impacts have been manifested through
significant declines in employment and gross domestic product levels. Declining
economic outcomes imply that the COVID-19 pandemic represents a significant
negative global shock that further limits these economies’ ability to achieve
United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Given the economic long-term

This article proposes that communication apprehension and communication competence influence student academic stress. The model also proposes that state self-esteem moderates the relationship between communication apprehension and student academic stress and that between communication competence and student academic stress. Moderation analysis was applied to data collected from eighty undergraduate psychology students in a final-year psychology course at a Caribbean university.