Specific features of local governance and institutions, and the extent of village inequality or other dimensions of heterogeneity, also may play important intermediating roles in det...Rao V. and Ibanez A.M., The social impact of social funds in Jamaica: a "participatory econometric" analysis ...
Owing to the lack of data availability, it was challenging to find an acceptable indicator to evaluate the leadership of individual economic elites. To determine the extent of leadership exhibited by economic elites in a village, we employ a method of measurement that considers the proportion of e...
Giving examples of such corporate policies, she showed that foreign investors in Jamaica displayed a clearsocial consciencein this regard (especially in financial services, mining and telecommunications). 在列举了这种企业政策的例子之后,她表明,牙买加的外国投资者在这方面表现出了一种明确的社会意识(特别是...
Interestingly, we have seen a shift in the way in which the word transracial is being used; so in addition to the terms use to describe interracial families, it is now also being defined as an umbrella term that encompasses many identities in which a persons’ assigned race at birth does ...
These "treaty ports" were important sources of Western influence, and many schools, hospitals, and other institutions created by foreign missionaries became prominent. The system of extraterritoriality, however, was considered degrading, and the government tried to transform social life and culture in ...
Those already financially included have a vested interest in seeing the number of financial institutions and the services they provide grow. The primary goal of financial inclusion is to ensure that all economically active adults in society have ready and equal exposure to a full variety of ...
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, she received her B.A. in Economics from George Washington University and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was an Associate Editor of the Law Review and a Legal Writing Fellow.“ Known for his dogged delay tactics, it was ...
Breaking apart the stereotypes that exclude us | Jamaica Moana Jamaica Moana is many things, but she never felt fully welcomed in any one of the communities that she was a part of. In this talk she shares how... Talk The power of feeling small: how awe and wonder sustain us | Julia ...
On the eve of independence in 1962, malnutrition was the largest single cause of death in Jamaica for children under one. Although child malnutrition rates have rapidly declined since 1962, today Jamaica experiences a double burden of malnutrition: the coexistence of pockets of high child malnutritio...
Speaking at the 10th Annual CCJ International Law Moot Competition that was won by the Jamaica-based Norman Manley Law School on Friday, Sir Dennis said that the CCJ’s contribution will be through the delivery of justice, which is “accessible, efficient and reflective of our v...