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Behind the smile
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ISBN: 0253342724 0253110645 9780253110640 9780253342720 9780253216151 025321615X 9780253001290 0253001293 9780253001238 0253001234 1280125810 9786613529671 9781280125812 6613529672 Year: 2003 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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Behind the Smile is an inside look at the world of Caribbean tourism as seen through the lives of the men and women in the tourist industry in Barbados. The workers represent every level of tourism, from maid to hotel manager, beach gigolo to taxi driver, red cap to diving instructor. These highly personal accounts offer insight into complex questions about tourism: how race shapes interactions between tourists and workers, how tourists may become agents of cultural change, the meaning of sexual encoun

The Caribbean : From Vulnerability to Sustained Growth
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ISBN: 158906514X 1455245887 9786613850386 1451962460 1452785686 1283537931 9781451962468 9781589065147 Year: 2006 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This book sets out the economic challenges facing the island nations of the Caribbean and presents policy options to ameliorate external shocks and embark firmly on a sustained growth path. While the countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union that are the focus of the book have enjoyed a sustained period of price and exchange rate stability, they have been buffeted in recent years by adverse shocks, including the erosion of trade preferences, declines in official foreign assistance, and frequent natural disasters. Strengthening their growth performance will require design of a multifaceted strategy that integrates the Caribbean with the global economy, facilitates an economic transformation from agriculture to tourism, fosters greater regional cooperation, and preserves macroeconomic stability. This volume examines the critical issues that are part of that process, including fiscal and financial sector policy, management of external flows, trade integration and tourism, macroeconomic cycles and volatility, and the economic implications of natural disasters.

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331.30 --- CAR / Caribbean Countries - Antillen - Antilles --- Fiscal policy --- -Business cycles --- -Natural disasters --- -Tourism --- -Brain drain --- -330.9729 --- Emigration and immigration --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Economic cycles --- Economic fluctuations --- Cycles --- Financial crises --- Tax policy --- Taxation --- Economic policy --- Finance, Public --- Economische toestand. --- Economic aspects --- -Economic aspects --- Government policy --- Eastern Caribbean Currency Union. --- ECCU --- Caribbean Area --- -Caribbean Free Trade Association countries --- Caribbean Region --- Caribbean Sea Region --- West Indies Region --- Economic conditions --- Brain drain -- Caribbean Area. --- Business cycles -- Caribbean Area. --- Caribbean Area -- Economic conditions. --- Fiscal policy -- Caribbean Area. --- Natural disasters -- Economic aspects -- Caribbean Area. --- Tourism -- Caribbean Area. --- Business cycles --- Natural disasters --- Brain drain --- Economic History --- Business & Economics --- -Eastern Caribbean Currency Union. --- -Economic conditions --- Economic conditions. --- 330.9729 --- Economische toestand --- E-books --- Exports and Imports --- Foreign Exchange --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Natural Disasters --- Climate --- Natural Disasters and Their Management --- Global Warming --- Fiscal Policy --- Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General --- International Migration --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- Public finance & taxation --- Currency --- Foreign exchange --- Migration, immigration & emigration --- International economics --- Tax incentives --- Migration --- Fiscal stance --- Public debt --- Environment --- Population and demographics --- Exchange rate arrangements --- Debts, Public --- Antigua and Barbuda

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