This article examines the macroeconomic factors influencing the flow of remittances to selected English-speaking Caribbean countries. A balanced two way fixed effects (FE) model, a random effects (RE) model and the adjusted fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) model (designed to correct...

This study develops proxies for each of Levine's (1997) five functions of the financial sector, and models the relationship between these functions and economic growth using methods that more accurately conform to theory, and which broaden our understanding of the mechanisms through which the...

This study reviews four tax incidence studies, done in Jamaica since 1983, to determine the evolution of Jamaica’s tax burden. It identifies several limitations in the methodologies used that make it difficult to interpret the results without due care. For example, income bases were...