Euro: Implications for Latin America and the Caribbean

Development and Testing of the Elderly Social Vulnerability Index (ESVI): A Composite Indicator to Measure Social Vulnerability in the Jamaican Elderly Population

“…The combination of external trade dependence and lack of export diversification makes the economy extremely vulnerable to external shocks (Escaith 2001). Heavy dependence on external trade, which has its structural roots in the colonial period, has been considered a constraint to economic development (Beckford 1988 unlimited supplies of labor, the country embarked on a period of industrialization in the 1960s.…”