The World of Forking Paths: Latin America and the Caribbean Facing Global Economic Risksdoi:10.2139/ssrn.2032441This report details the divergent paths that the world economy may take and their potential effects on Latin America and the Caribbean. Scenarios are constructeSocial Science Electronic Publishing
Despite of the economic progress experienced in the late 1990s, Mozambique remains one of the poorest countries in the world, with 60 per cent of the population living below the poverty line. The problems facing Mozambique include: · Economic benefits barely reach 80 per cent of the popula.....
emission reduction, i.e., to maintain sound economic growth while minimizing carbon emissions (Hwang, 2023), has become an urgent problem facing China's sustainable development, as well as a common challenge faced by developing countries all over the world, which is of great practical ...
Today there are many problems in Cuba such as its waning economy, its health care issues, even its pollution, but almost all of them stem from the U.S. unwillingness to cooperate with the Cuban government, and ultimately, the U.S.'s goal to spread "freedom and liberty" to Cuba's "...
As a matter of fact, international cooperation, international organizations and the funds provided by these organizations have a great role in the fight of countries, especially developing countries, against environmental problems. At the COP28 meetings held in 2023, the countries' commitment to ...
Caribbean at 80.5% of GDP, while recommending maintaining a prudent debt level between 55% and 44% of GDP.11Several countries in the region, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and El Salvador, currently stand above this sustainable debt limit. There are almost no prospects of their debt ...
Economic determinism and PDNAs: evidence from the Caribbean The excessive exposure and vulnerability that create considerable losses and damages in Caribbean countries due to major hurricanes has been now widely documented (Baptiste & Devonish, Citation2019; Bonilla, Citation2020; ECLAC, Citation2018a,...
and in middle-income countries they are emerging as serious public health problems. Furthermore, WHO has predicted a rise in mortality from COPD from the fourth leading cause of death in 2004 to the third in 2030, largely attributable to rising tobacco consumption and biomass fuel exposure, both...
Employees with particularly high BMI can be less productive in the workplace due to the range of health problems that obesity can cause, including, for example, arthritis, fatigue, breathlessness, lack of concentration, and depression.14 T...
1.1. Climate change and related issues facing the Caribbean The Caribbean is facing major threats due to climate change that will continue to cause environmental, economic, and social damage. These growing problems include sea level rise, ocean warming, ocean acidification, extreme storm damage, shif...