Our analysis also highlights the potential risks associated with low levels of government economic support during the pandemic. Specifically, we find that in countries where the government's macro-financial package in response to the pandemic is less than approximately 25% of GDP, there is a possib...
1998; Ward and Gleditsch 2002; Simmons and Elkins 2004)– governance may have a spatial dimension due to ‘spillovers’ and ‘resource flows’. Other possible factors that may cause spatial dependence include policy convergence (Mukand and Rodrik 2005), interdependence of policy decisions (Brueckner...
Literature study reveals that high unemployment rate among the youths of nations leads to significant growth in crime and hence criminal individuals 5, 7, 12, 13, 14, 16. Hibbert 5 made a study on unemployment and crime in Jamaica and found that 61% of unemployed youth were ranging between...
In a country with troubling levels of poverty and unemployment, homophobic violence is only part of a high rate of general violence: in 2016 Jamaica had the fourth highest murder rate in the world, according to the UN. Anti-discrimination laws do not protect Jamaicans on the basis of sexual...
Introduction: This study is an empirical examination of the exchange rate of US $1 to the Jamaican dollar, mortality and homicide for 44 years (1970-2013). Objective: This article evaluates the exchange rate, homicide and mortality in Jamaica using 44 years of data (1970-2013) in an effort...
If I had any problem, with race, I wouldn't have lived in Jamaica for over a decade or be in a mixed race marriage for just under 49 years. You left-wing racists don't have any place freely walking the streets of America. Moreover that you vote communist-lite isn't exactly patrio...
Caribbean Black ethnicity was defined as being Black and having ancestral ties to the following countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia, and Saint Kitts and ...