GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
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DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
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Volume Four Winter 2006-Spring 2007 Numbers 3-4.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Theme: Global Labor Migration and Emerging Trends in Development Finance: An Assessment of the
Economic and Social Impact of Migrant (Worker) Remittances in Central America and the Caribbean
BETWEEN HARDSHIP AND THE LOCAL ECONOMY IN LATIN AMERICA
MANUEL OROZCO
Published online: February 10, 2017
THE IMPORTANCE OF REMITTANCES FOR THE CARIBBEAN'S FUTURE TRANSCENDS THEIR
MACROECONOMIC INFLUENCES
DENNIS CONWAY
Published online: February 10, 2017
A THEORY OF MOTIVATIONS TO REMIT TO LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN WITH THE
POSSIBILITY OF RETURN MIGRATION
KHALFANI SOLAN and DILLON ALLEYNE
Published online: February 10, 2017
REMITTANCES TO CARICOM COUNTRIES: POLICY ISSUES AND OPTIONS
CLAREMONT KIRTON and GEORGIA McLEOD
Published online: February 10, 2017
REMITTANCES AND AGRICULTURAL CHANGE IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
JASON DAVIS
Published online: February 10, 2017
REMITTANCES TO HAITI: LEVERAGING MIGRANTTRANSFERS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
LYNDA A. DYKSTRA
Published online: February 10, 2017
REMITTANCES AND THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROCESS IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
ECONOMY
ROGER HOSEIN and MARTIN FRANKLIN
Published online: February 10, 2017
THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCES ON POVERTY AND INEQUALITY IN JAMAICA:
WHAT IS THE EVIDENCE?
DILLON ALLEYNE
Published online: February 10, 2017
AN EXAMINATION OF TRANSNATIONAL REMITTANCE PRACTICES OF JAMAICAN CANADIAN
FAMILIES
DWAINE PLAZA
Published online: February 10, 2017
CAN THE FINANCIAL SECTOR REALISTICALLY BE EXPECTED TO FOSTER ECONOMIC
GROWTH? AN ANALYSIS OF JAMAICAN STAKEHOLDERS’ VIEWS
DAVID TENNANT and CLAREMONT KIRTON
Published online: February 10, 2017
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN JAMAICA
MARIE FRECKLETON
Published online: February 10, 2017
THE EFFECT OF LABOR ON USAGE OF TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES
SOCIAL SERVICES PROGRAM FOR HISPANICS IN SOUTH CAROLINA
CHRISTOPHER C. MATHIS and SHOBHA CHOUDHARI
Published online: February 10, 2017