Although Jamaica has a stable parliamentary democracy and is a middle-income developing country, the government of Prime Minister P.J. Patterson faces several significant challenges. These include a violent crime wave fueled by gangs and drug trafficking; high external debt, estimated at 135% of ...
Mr. Holness committed to his 2016 election promise to bring legislation to have a fixed election date, explaining that legal challenges have delayed implementation. Dr. Ashley said the time has come for the guessing game about election dates to end. "I got from him what seems to be an irrev...
Journal of the Geological Society of JamaicaThis book directly challenges the stereotype that women are inherently peaceable by examining female combatants' involvement in ethno-national conflicts.Drawing upon empirical case studies of Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland, this study explores the ways in ...
the best known example of this form of political domination, marginalization,racism, and anti-Blackness is in the Dominican Republic. In his study of race and politics, Ernesto Sagas analyzes how Dominican political elites use race and
religious discrimination and racial capitalism in Ghana and Jamaica. Her manuscript,Re-Membering the Maternal Goddess: Rastafari Women's Intellectual History and Activism in the Pan-African Worldis the winner of the 2019 National Women's Association and the University of Illinois Press First Book Pri...
Insufficient financial and human resources and fragmentation of various kinds emerge as common challenges. Previous research tells us more about the expansion of interventions (“smaller to bigger”) than systems-building (“bigger to better”). Overall, there is insufficient attention to the political...
Estimating the causal effects of commodity windfalls on CO emissions under the political economy model of environmental policy faces several challenges. First, the quest for comparability across the broad geographical and different economic landscapes means sacrificing these measures’ ability to capture the...
But among the challenges they face, they are working to make the metropolitan as resilient as possible given the climatological changes that we’re seeing already. Fire is an example of that. These intense storms that blew in this month (January 2023) are directly related at some level to ...
While the room for the central political CSR activities of public deliberation and self-regulation is severely constrained given the unchecked power of governments, their normative desirability is high, which is why we should not disregard them completely based on the contextual challenges MNEs will ...
Honduras faces significant challenges in the areas of crime and human rights and improving overall economic and living conditions in one of the hemisphere'... Sullivan, M. P - Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress 被引量: 5发表: 2005年 The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor ...