Add to ORKGFrom 1961 to 2011, Barbados’s GDP per capita grew roughly two times faster than Jamaica’s. As a result, the income gap between Barbados and Jamaica is now more than three times larger than at the time of independence. Qualitative historical analysis, exploiting the interplay between public policy and entrepreneurship before and after the 1973 oil price shock, demonstrates that pro-entrepreneurial policies in Barbados versus anti-business policies in Jamaica explain in part the economic divergence of these two islands
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From 1961 to 2011, Barbados’s GDP per capita grew roughly two times faster than Jamaica’s. As a res...
Recent work emphasizes the primacy of differences in countries ’ colonially-bequeathed property righ...
This paper develops a political economy framework to explain the underlying financial mechanisms thr...
Income differences across country, banking crises and oil price shocks are the dominant macroeconomi...
This is the first of two articles on the dynamics of the Jamaican economy over the last two and a ha...
This study compares the GDP growth rates of twenty-two Caribbean countries and territories between 1...
Historically, small economies, especially resource-rich ones, underperformed on average relative to ...
Aghion, Howitt and Mayer Foulkes postulate that one mechanism by which financial development enhance...
Jamaica’s economic growth averaged 0.7 per cent over the last 10 years in spite of investment as a p...
This article investigated the relationship between tourism and economic growth in Barbados from 197...
The paper attempts to indentify the constraints to growth in Guyana using the Hausmann et al (2005) ...
The Caribbean is a diverse group of countries, both culturally and economically. Most of them, howev...
Guyana has been able to reverse decades of economic decline and stagnation with five consecutive yea...
Small, open developing economies in general, and small island developing states (SIDS) in particular...
Entrepreneurship as a pseudo-discipline has matured to the point where it has begun to question the ...
From 1961 to 2011, Barbados’s GDP per capita grew roughly two times faster than Jamaica’s. As a res...
Recent work emphasizes the primacy of differences in countries ’ colonially-bequeathed property righ...
This paper develops a political economy framework to explain the underlying financial mechanisms thr...
Income differences across country, banking crises and oil price shocks are the dominant macroeconomi...
This is the first of two articles on the dynamics of the Jamaican economy over the last two and a ha...
This study compares the GDP growth rates of twenty-two Caribbean countries and territories between 1...
Historically, small economies, especially resource-rich ones, underperformed on average relative to ...
Aghion, Howitt and Mayer Foulkes postulate that one mechanism by which financial development enhance...
Jamaica’s economic growth averaged 0.7 per cent over the last 10 years in spite of investment as a p...
This article investigated the relationship between tourism and economic growth in Barbados from 197...
The paper attempts to indentify the constraints to growth in Guyana using the Hausmann et al (2005) ...
The Caribbean is a diverse group of countries, both culturally and economically. Most of them, howev...
Guyana has been able to reverse decades of economic decline and stagnation with five consecutive yea...
Small, open developing economies in general, and small island developing states (SIDS) in particular...
Entrepreneurship as a pseudo-discipline has matured to the point where it has begun to question the ...