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  • Tables and Figures for: Is there a Caribbean sclerosis?: stagnating economic growth in the Caribbean
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    By Country Department Caribbean Group (VPC/CCB/CCB)
    This dataset was created to support 2014 Is There a Caribbean Sclerosis? Stagnating Economic Growth in the Caribbean on the following topics: economic growth, small economies, caribbean, productivity, competitiveness, macroeconomic instability. This report addresses several critical questions regarding Caribbean nations. Does size matter for economic growth and volatility? To what degree has Caribbean economic growth been inferior to that of ROSE? What could account for the Caribbean growth gap and what economic policies might decision-makers adopt to promote higher and sustainable growth?. The central focus is on six countries in the region, which will be referred to as the C6: The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. However, the analysis will sometimes include, most often in the aggregate, the countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). The six members of the OECS used in this report are Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth...
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    Geographic coverage Antigua and Barbuda · Bahamas · Barbados ...

    Temporal coverage 2000-2011

    Published date 2015-07-01

  • Data associated with: The Politics of Policies - IPES 2006
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    By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)
    This dataset was created to support 2006 IPES - The Politics of Policies on the following topics: macroeconomics, government and democracy.
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    Geographic coverage Argentina · Bahamas · Barbados ...

    Temporal coverage 2012-2012

    Published date 2015-01-30

  • Latin American and Caribbean Enterprise Survey: 2011
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    By Connectivity, Markets and Finance Division (VPS/IFD/CMF)
    LACES is a comprehensive and internationally comparable firm level dataset covering 14 Caribbean territories. The dataset records firm level behavior related to a variety of aspects such as: sales, supplies, foreign trade and competition, innovation, conflict resolution, crime prevention, business environment and government relations, labour and skills, financing, performance, among others. The dataset uses the World Bank Enterprise Survey methodology. Until 2011, the region did not have a firm-level, internationally comparable data that could shed light on the variables that affect productivity. Compete Caribbean funded a Caribbean Enterprise and Indicator Survey that was conducted as part of the World Bank's 2010 Latin American and Caribbean Enterpise Survey (LACES) to fill this gap. The LACES and the PROTEqIN surveys share the bulk of the questions. Both datasets together comprise more than 4000 observations. These datasets are complemented by the FINGEN data, which registers...
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    Geographic coverage Antigua and Barbuda · Bahamas · Barbados ...

    Temporal coverage 2011-2011

    Published date 2016-01-13

  • GVAR Data associated with: China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America
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    By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)
    This is the data used for the estimation of the GVAR model as in "China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America" (access the study in the related URL Section). The dataset includes quarterly data for twenty-five major advanced and emerging economies plus the euro area, covering more than 90 percent of world GDP. The variables included in the dataset are real GDP, CPI inflation, real equity prices, real exchange rates, short-term and long-term interest rates, and the price of oil. Updates of this dataset -together with the baseline GVAR code- can be found in the Related URL section below. Years covered: 1979 - 2009.
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    Geographic coverage Argentina · Australia · Belgium ...

    Temporal coverage 1979-2009

    Published date 2012-04-13

  • Survey data of Productivity, Technology, Innovation in the Caribbean: 2014
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    By Country Department Caribbean Group (VPC/CCB/CCB);Connectivity, Markets and Finance Division (VPS/IFD/CMF)
    PROTEqIN is a comprehensive and internationally comparable firm level dataset covering 14 Caribbean territories. The dataset records firm level behavior related to a variety of aspects such as: sales, supplies, foreign trade and competition, innovation, conflict resolution, crime prevention, business environment and government relations, labour and skills, financing, performance, among others. The dataset uses the World Bank Enterprise Survey methodology. In 2014, Compete Caribbean generated a new round of data by re-issuing the survey, updating the data on enterprises and including additional variables linked to productivity, technology and innovation (PROTEqIN) at the firm level. The LACES and the PROTEqIN surveys share the bulk of the questions. Both datasets together comprise more than 4000 observations. These datasets are complemented by the FINGEN data, which registers finance and gender characteristics at the firm level.
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    Geographic coverage Bahamas · Barbados · Belize ...

    Temporal coverage 2013-2014

    Published date 2016-01-13