The Caribbean
THE CARIBBEAN
... the Caribbean, four Dominican technicians received training on the application of a methodology for identifying appropriate technologies for adapting to climate change (climate ...
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VAT: Is it Suitable for the Caribbean Community?
... Tax harmonization pursued in the Caribbean has a number of elements that are very important in complementing and aiding the move towards a Single Market and Economy. The Common External Tariff (CET) has been the ...
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The Caribbean community: Succes of failure?
... In 1982, Atkinson argued that the member states have not made sufficient commitment to CARICOM yet, and therefore nationalism will be playing a bigger role than regionalism in the region (p. 512). Atkinson emphasized ...
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Credit Booms and Busts in the Caribbean
... the Caribbean has risen by a cumulative ...the Caribbean, employing annual data for 13 Caribbean countries covering the period 1970 to 2006 in the ...the Caribbean, with low inflation, high ...
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The most spectacular resort in the Caribbean
... Rooms of 67 M ² perfectly designed to delight your guests on the Caribbean Sea, distributed in buildings of 2 and 4 levels each lift. King size or two double beds, all with pillow top, sofa bed, private garden ...
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Systems Science for Caribbean Health: the development and piloting of a model for guiding policy on diabetes in the Caribbean
... the Caribbean, but has a unique environment being a Central American mainland, English-speaking middle- income country with access to data on diabetes prevalence, risk factors and its effects from continuing ...
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DISASTER IMPACT ON THE CARIBBEAN
... The most recent volcanic disaster to afflict the Caribbean has occurred on the island of Monserrat. Although it had erupted in the early 1600s, the Soufriere Hills Volcano stayed dormant until July 18, 1995 and ...
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Origins and genetic legacies of the Caribbean Taino
... present-day Caribbean ge- nomes are closely related to the ancient Taino, demonstrating an element of continuity between precontact populations and present- day Latino populations in the ...
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The Caribbean and the European Union. Development 2010
... The European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department (DG ECHO) has been active in disaster preparedness through its Disaster Preparedness Programme (DIPECHO) which commenced operations in the region in 1996 to improve the ...
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Popular Political Culture and the Caribbean Carnival
... huge, Caribbean-led, culturally hybridised, inter-ethnic festival of popular artistic creativity and social critique, the Caribbean carnival deserves much more serious attention than it has so far ...of ...
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Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
... IICA-FORAGRO conducted a status assessment to evaluate information management and technical communication among agricultural technology research and innovation organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean. The ...
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The Caribbean in translation: remapping thresholds of dislocation
... given Caribbean reality is but one component, among many possible ...the Caribbean author, who presents, at one and the same time a translated, yet somehow intrinsically untranslatable text, but also of the ...
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Informality in Latin America and the Caribbean
... As suggested above, all these possibilities make sense, and there is some evidence to support each of them. To illustrate this, Figure 2 presents cross-country scatter plots of each of the four measures of informality ...
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Development paths in the Caribbean
... the Caribbean had brought down poverty levels in the 1990s on the basis of moderate growth and income redistribution measures, the region is now in danger of losing the fight against headcount (absolute ...
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The dualistic system on the Caribbean public entities that are part of the Netherlands in the Dutch Caribbean
... The isolation of the Islands also mean that they have to maintain for example air- and seaports. Other considerations were for example to allow the administration of Bonaire to be able to use Papiamentu for communication ...
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The Malta Convention in the Caribbean
... The goal of the analysis of the legislation was to get an overview of the core values of the Malta Convention (as described in chapter 3), and establishes whether or not these are present in the Caribbean ...
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Decolonizing the Caribbean Diet
... One of the elementary school trips I vividly remember was when we visited the Centro Ceremo- nial Indígena de Tibes in Ponce, Puerto Rico (PR). It is one of the most important Taíno deposits of the Caribbean, and ...
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Spatial structure of the Caribbean lobster (Metanephrops binghami) in the Colombian Caribbean Sea
... experimental isotropic variogram (Fig. 5b). The fitted spherical variograms showed a nonresolved structure for the sampling design that considered 0.0% of total variance (nugget as percentage of sill; Table 2). The ...
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Should the Caribbean Look to the East? An Assessment of Caribbean Export Potential
... the Caribbean within the framework of a structural gravity ...the Caribbean within East ...the Caribbean is that without significant structural changes, the region will be unable to exploit East ...
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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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