Small island developing states
Tourism and the environment in small island developing states: Development of a new framework for assessing sustainability
... on small island developing states ...within small island developing states with regard to issues such as salinization of coastal aquifers, increased energy needs, ...
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Effectiveness of foreign aid in Small Island Developing States
... These differences suggest that the conditionality and overall effectiveness of Official Development Assistance differs significantly between the Small Island Developing States and the general, ...
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Oil and Electricity in Small Island Developing States: Unmasking the Risks and Opportunities
... This study was undertaken to investigate four different issues outlined in the Introduction. First, I set out to investigate whether oil price shocks adversely affect domestic activity in Small Island ...
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The WTO's telecommunications commitments and the credibility of telecommunications regulatory reforms in small island developing states
... in small island developing states, including in five Pacific island states in the past five ...160 developing countries (including 26 small island ...
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Social Policy in the Post-crisis Context of Small Island Developing States: a Synthesis
... This paper provides a synthesis of the multifaceted impact of the global economic crisis on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), focusing on the Pacific and Caribbean regions. It shows that ...
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Research priorities for conservation and natural resource management in Oceania's small-island developing states
... Oceania’s small-island developing ...on small-island developing states and the need for a research agenda that is responsive to the sociocultural context of ...
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Sustainable Development Goals and Visualizing Small Island Developing States
... members states established the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the well-being of all people and the ...the small scale of these maps the coastlines and boundaries are necessarily ...for ...
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Insurance mechanisms for tropical cyclones and droughts in Pacific Small Island Developing States
... scale developing over warm waters having organised convection and a maximum mean wind speed of 34 knots or greater extending One group of locations significantly affected by climate-related losses and damage is ...
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Toward Improving Export Diversification and Economic Growth in Small Island Developing States
... in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), an area for which theory has conflicting views and virtually no empirical research has been ...several small nation states have managed ...
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Energy Consumption and Economic Growth for Small Island Developing States: A Panel ARDL Approach
... Contribution/Originality: This study contributes to the existing literature of energy consumption-growth nexus for small island developing states. It uses new estimation methodology namely the ...
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Assessing the economic vulnerability of small island developing states and least developed countries
... sociopolitical problems that have disrupted economic growth in a number of African countries or the financial crises in Asian and other emerging countries. The renewed interest also reflects international concern about ...
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Sustainable Delivery of Speech-Language Therapy Services in Small Island Developing States Using Information and Communication Technology – A Study of the Maldives
... 2015). Small Island Developing States (SIDS), a subgroup of 52 Majority world countries, face particularly complex environmental, social, and economic challenges related to their small ...
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Tourism Competitiveness in Small Island Developing States
... The tourism industry is the leading segment of the services industries in small island developing states (SIDS). This paper therefore seeks primarily to investigate both the nature and ...
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Assessing the Economic Vulnerability of Small Island Developing States and the Least Developed Countries
... the small island developing states (SIDS) as well as of least developed countries (LDCs) has been an increasing concern for the international ...in small developing ...of ...
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Microloans, climate change adaptation, & stated investment behaviour in small island developing states: a Fiji case study
... to Small Island States and use the survey experiment method I had developed for The Association for Rivers and Coastal-Ecosystems ...Conservation. Small Island Developing ...
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Partnerships Briefs for Small Island Developing States
... In doing so, it is crucial for SIDS to adopt integrated planning of economic activities to decouple eco- nomic development from environmental degrada- tion. This is especially important in view of their small ...
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Evaluating the business case for investment in the resilience of the tourism sector of small island developing states
... A lack of resources is thought by one tourism association executive to be a barrier to investment in DRR. This is reflected in the difference in capacity between large and small operators. For instance, when ...
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Climate impact assessment and ‘islandness’: Challenges and opportunities of knowledge production and decision making for Small Island Developing States
... yet, island communities can be highly integrated with the mainland and the rest of the world (Grydehøj and Hayward, 2014), making them at once both open and closed (Pugh, ...
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The Role of Technical Efficiency & Productivity Evolution in Port Development: An application to Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) ports
... Given the initial pilot exercise in step 2, and the iterative processes involved, for this research, the author has proceeded with 69 container seaports to be analysed over an 11-year time span (i.e. 759 observations) ...
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Applicability of Performance-Based Funding Models for Tertiary Education in Small Island Developing States: The Case of Mauritius
... some small island states. A high island is, in geology, an island of volcanic origin, whereas a low island is an island of coral ...
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