On the other hand, in the Bahamas and Bermuda, the initial injection of money disappears within half a year with no more than five or six rounds of transactions. Another factor that might influence the multiplier’s value is the type of tourist received by the host country. Different types ...
Economic policy.Reports the economic policy in Bahamas. Reduction in the revenue rate from tourism-related taxes and import duties; Concerns over the health insurance costs; Proposals for the problems in the narrow tax base.EBSCO_bspCountry Report Puerto Rico...
Countries that figure out the best way of navigating this challenge will enjoy better economic outcomes compared to nations that either make bad policy choices or “kick the can down the road” and allow problems to fester. This chapter will analyze Social Security/pension-related systems, ...
However, due to the interpolation of PPP between survey years which occur in approximately 6-year increments30, we opted for market exchange rates to avoid introducing an interpolation bias which would pose particular problems for time-series and panel analyses. In the context of cross-sectional ...
Bahamas - Current economic position and prospects The Bahamas have a limited resource base, but long beaches, warm clear waters, and a mild climate give the Bahamas comparative advantage in tourism. Howeve... TW Bank 被引量: 0发表: 2011年 ...
[53], by estimating the FMOLS model, endogeneity bias is prevented, as well as serial correlation problems and simultaneous bias are also eliminated. In general, in this equation yit is defined as the explained variable and Xit as the explanatory variable. Depending on the CR identified between...
The Caribbean Islands comprise Bahamas, Barbados, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. 3 Robert Crosnoe, "Gender, obesity, and education," Sociology of Education, volume 80, number 3, July 2007. 4 Katherine Maso...
In this paper, we use tax and household survey data to assess the history of income distribution in Argentina since the beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1970s, the country experienced a fall in inequality in spite of lower income growth. Since th
Even though the sector is doing very well and expanding every day, the environmental harm it brings is enough for concern. With increased environmental problems in the world today such as: pollution, decreased bio-diversity, and climate change it is important to establish how this booming sector...
Yet there are, it seems to us, a few problems with such an account. First, it is not clear that Barbados is‘more’ developed than other Caribbean countries; its high levels of GDP per capita come with some very troubling trade-offs in terms of the inflationary cost of living, ...