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, ...
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 ...
Authorization was granted for negotiations on science and technology cooperation with the Bahamas. A unified law for international road transport within GCC countries was approved, and additional compensation was granted to Tabah village’s affected families in the Hail region. Furthermore, final accounts...
[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 outlook for both sectors, however, has significantly improved since the end of the third quarter, as firming employment trends in the continued sectoral broadening of the economic expansion in the United States were expected to stimulate increased growth in The Bahamas' tourist sector by the ...
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 analyses, by contrast, the use of PPP-based values may be favorable. For example, when visualising the distributi...
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
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...
Direct costs ranged from $242 for a study on out-of-pocket expenditures in Mexico to $11,917 for a study on the cost of diabetes in the USA, while indirect costs ranged from $45 for Pakistan to $16,914 for the Bahamas. In LMICs—in stark contrast to HICs—a substantial part of ...