Caribbean Islands
The Role of Financial Development for Economic Growth in Caribbean Islands
... 6 The study uses a sample of 12 Caribbean islands between 1980 and 2004. Four measures of financial sector development are used in estimation. These measures include the asset size of the sector, the value ...
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Living with or Eradicating Poisonous Snakes in Densely Populated Caribbean Islands—A Socio Ecological Challenge for the French West Indies
... In 2011, the IUCN Red List estimated that 627 snake species are threatened all around the world. A recent study by Reading [1] explains and illustrates that snake species populations are declining around the globe. ...
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Development of a generic Ehrlichia FRET qPCR and investigation of ehrlichioses in domestic ruminants on five Caribbean islands
... Background: The Ehrlichia are obligate intracellular Gram-negative tick-borne bacteria that are important human and animal pathogens. There is a need for assays to rapidly and reliably detect and differentiate the five ...
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Grey Zone in Caribbean Islands: Socio-Racial Struggles around the Martinican Carnival
... One of the major indicators of this neocolonial order is linked with the perpetuation of the economic-political system of agricultural monoculture 3 , in other words, the dependency on exportation. Another one is the ...
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The Tourism Satellite Account: Possibilities and Potential Benefits for the Eastern Caribbean Islands Tourism Development
... many Caribbean Islands, it is clear at this point that the various TSA exercises require some regional coordination and collaboration if the already difficult task of TSA implementation is to be executed ...
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Climate Change and Tourism Features in the Caribbean
... the Caribbean countries under investigation, the TCIs for most of the other Caribbean islands did not show any significant decline during the traditional shoulder periods in the ...the islands ...
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Biodiversity of freshwater fishes of Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies
... The present study is concerned with the biodiversity of freshwater fishes of the neighbouring Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago, situated on the South American continental shelf F[r] ...
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African-Caribbean cancer consortium for the study of viral, genetic and environmental cancer risk factors
... The Netherlands Antilles, formerly a Dutch colony and now autonomous, consists of six small Caribbean islands (Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, St. Eustatius and St. Maarten). A cancer registry was ...
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A REVIEW OF OBSERVED AND PROJECTED CHANGES IN CLIMATE FOR THE ISLANDS IN THE CARIBBEAN (edited by H. Diaz).
... Observed and projected changes in climate have serious socio-economic implications for the Caribbean islands. This article attempts to present basic climate change information—based on previous studies, ...
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Use of a specific immunogenic region on the Cowdria ruminantium MAP1 protein in a serological assay
... Reactivities of Caribbean sheep sera with MAP1-B. Sera obtained from sheep on several Caribbean islands were tested with MAP1-B by ELISA. The results were compared with the reactivities of these sera ...
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Local Banking Competition and Efficiency in the Presence of Offshore Financial Institutions: Evidence from the Caribbean
... Annual balance sheet and income statements for all commercial banks were obtained for ten Caribbean countries, between 1993 and 2004. The countries included are Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, ...
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Impact of urban heat islands on the thermal comfort and cooling energy demand of artificial islands-A case study of AMWAJ Islands in Bahrain
... Man-made islands, created by reclaiming land from the sea, have become more prevalent in the Gulf Corporation Council countries (GCCC) in recent years as demand for additional land to develop ...such ...
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The Open Arts Journal
... many Caribbean artists, the ‘milk and honey’ myth of globalisation has covered over their actual struggles to negotiate a livelihood in conditions of ...of Caribbean experience on the flipside of ...the ...
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Corruption in the Caribbean
... another Caribbean country that has been suffering from endemic police corruption and a high murder rate (on account of the drug ...the Caribbean Net News indicated that both public and private sector ...
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... of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL) in defining the Caribbean as “the area of the Caribbean archipelago, the mainland countries (including the Guianas), and the ...
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Grand Anse Declaration: Can the Caribbean Community Realistically Integrate Intraregional Trade and Production Within the Confines of the CARICOM Treaty by 1993?
... Replacing the CARIFTA agreement, Caribbean nations signed the treaty establishing the Caribbean Community and Common Market on July 4, 1973.4 The objectives of the C[r] ...
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Should the Caribbean Look to the East? An Assessment of Caribbean Export Potential
... the Caribbean should look to as they seek to diversify their export markets (Girvan ...the Caribbean with one the fastest growing regions in the ...the Caribbean from external shocks and aid in ...
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An EU-Caribbean partnership for growth, stability and development. Impact assessment. Commission staff working document accommpanying the communication. SEC (2006) 268 final, 2 March 2006
... the Caribbean to deal with its vulnerabilities in an efficient and consistent manner, and it is therefore imperative that the EU vis-à-vis its strategy, support and encourage the Caribbean in the EPA ...
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Spatial structure of the Caribbean lobster (Metanephrops binghami) in the Colombian Caribbean Sea
... Colombian Caribbean Sea is influenced by the north- east trade winds, causing the surface currents flowing in west and south-west directions almost parallel to the ...Colombian Caribbean Sea, where the ...
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Sapos iumi mitim iumi : urbanization and creolization in the Solomon Islands
... British Solomon Islands Protectorate Kanaka Pidgin Creole Ka_naka Pidgin English Queensland Votes and Proceedings Solanon Islands Creole Solomon Islands Pijin South .Sea Evangelical Miss[r] ...
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