TY - BOOK AU - Sahay,Ratna AU - Robinson,David O. AU - Cashin,Paul ED - International Monetary Fund. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The Caribbean: from vulnerability to sustained growth AV - HC151 .C257 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - International Monetary Fund KW - Eastern Caribbean Currency Union KW - Fiscal policy KW - Caribbean Area KW - Business cycles KW - Natural disasters KW - Economic aspects KW - Tourism KW - Brain drain KW - Economic conditions KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Overview; Ratna Sahay, David O. Robinson, and Paul Cashin --; Stabilization, debt, and fiscal policy in the Caribbean; Ratna Sahay --; Fiscal policy: is the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union a free-riding paradise?; Rupa Duttagupta and Guillermo Tolosa --; Key features of Caribbean business cycles; Paul Cashin --; Islands of stability? Determinants of macroeconomic volatility in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union; Tobias Rasmussen and Guillermo Tolosa --; Eastern Caribbean Currency Union banking system in a time of fiscal challenge; Jingqing Chai --; Natural disasters and their macroeconomic implications; Tobias Rasmussen --; Government responses to natural disasters in the Caribbean; Paul Cashin and Pawel Dyczewski --; Emigration and brain drain from the Caribbean; Prachi Mishra --; Tax concessions and foreign direct investment in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union; Jingqing Chai and Rishi Goyal --; Eastern Caribbean tourism: developments and outlook; Ruby Randall --; Integration and growth in the Eastern Caribbean; Montfort Mlachila, Wendell Samuel, and Patrick Njoroge; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3012485 ER -