Handbook of Caribbean Economies

Introduction / Robert E. Looney -- An alternative policy approach to growth and stabilization in small open economies / DeLisle Worrell -- Impacts of climate change on Caribbean economies / Masaō I. Ashtine -- Caribbean energy security : regional profile and challenges to integration / David Goldwyn and Cory Gill -- The Caribbean holds its own in global tourism competition / DeLisle Worrell -- CARICOM and that vexing issue of size and viability / Patsy Lewis -- Debt and fiscal constraints / Lester Henry -- Crime, violence, and drugs in the Caribbean / Sherill V. C. Morris-Francis -- It's complicated : the Caribbean's relationship to white-collar crime / Kristina Hinds -- Caribbean natural disasters and country/regional responses / Robert E. Looney -- Why and how to use fiscal policy to target the exchange rate / DeLisle Worrell -- Venezuela : the descent into a 'soft state' / Anthony P. Maingot -- The external economic relations of the Caribbean : the United States and Europe Union compared / Ginelle Greene-Dewasmes and Tony Heron -- China's increasing influence in Central America and the Caribbean / Richard L. Bernal -- Regional cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean : new challenges and agendas / Cintia Quiliconi and Renato Rivera Rhon -- The Puerto Rican economy / Brad Setser and Sergio Marxuach -- Haiti / Wenche Iren Huge -- The Cuban economy : socialist stagnation with Caribbean characteristics / Richard E. Feinberg -- Trinidad and Tobago / Lester Henry -- Belize / Victor Bulmer-Thomas -- Guyana and the advent of world-class petroleum finds / Clive Y. Thomas -- Development and underperformance in the Barbados economy, 1946-2018 / DeLisle Worrell -- Suriname / Scott B. MacDonald -- The Bahamas : facing a period of climate change and slow growth / Robert E. Looney -- The Cayman Islands / Scott B. MacDonald -- Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean Basin : a comparative analysis of models and trajectories / Alain Maurin and Patrick Kent Watson -- French Guiana patterns of growth and development / Paul Rosele Chim -- The Dominican Republic / Susan Pozo and Antonio María Giraldi -- The Jamaican economy : a Caribbean success story at last? / Keith Collister and Robert E. Looney -- The Dutch Caribbean / Scott B. MacDonald.