Download or read book Entrepreneurship and Employment in the Caribbean Community written by Don Charles and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), Guyana, and Suriname, are Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States that are fortunate to be endowed with commercial reserves of hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbon revenues acquired by the respective governments can be used to fund the cost of several merit goods, amongst which the most commendable is the expenditure on education. This book’s objectives are threefold. The first is to examine the labour market in the hydrocarbon-rich CARICOM Member States. The second is the review of successful case studies of entrepreneurship in countries similar circumstances to the Caribbean. The third is to provide policy recommendations to address this employment problem in the hydrocarbon-rich CARICOM Member States. The policy recommendations of this book are useful for governments of mineral-rich countries, even outside of CARICOM. It provides lessons for policy makers to craft policy to encourage the right enabling environment for entrepreneurship and employment creation.
Download or read book The Barbados Consensus on Development of Local and Regional Entrepreneurship and Skills in the Member States of the Caribbean Community written by Caribbean Community and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Transformation and Job Creation written by Kenneth O. Hall & Myrtle Chuck-A-Sang and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of economic transformation is an immediate and practical one for the English-speaking Caribbean. In the postindependence period, Caribbean governments seemed blissfully unaware that the inability to transform their economies was leading to serious unemployment problems. The statistics are quite stark. Unemployment rates in the Caribbean range from 6% in the more prosperous states to 23% in the less prosperous ones. This use of economic transformation and job creation continues to be a major challenge in the first decade of the twenty-first Century. This is the subject that is treated with impressive urgency in this volume entitled Economic Transformation and Job Creation: The Caribbean Experience.
Download or read book Economic Transformation and Job Creation written by The Integrationist and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of economic transformation is an immediate and practical one for the English-speaking Caribbean. In the postindependence period, Caribbean governments seemed blissfully unaware that the inability to transform their economies was leading to serious unemployment problems. The statistics are quite stark. Unemployment rates in the Caribbean range from 6% in the more prosperous states to 23% in the less prosperous ones. This use of economic transformation and job creation continues to be a major challenge in the first decade of the twenty-first Century. This is the subject that is treated with impressive urgency in this volume entitled Economic Transformation and Job Creation: The Caribbean Experience.
Download or read book Entrepreneurship in the Caribbean written by Selwyn D. Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Caribbean Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Montreal written by Margaret-Ann Hall and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigrants have a higher tendency to start their own businesses than the population at large, but English Caribbean immigrants, entering mainly under the Family Class category, tend to be salaried and wage earners as opposed to employers and self-employed persons. This thesis examines why English Caribbean immigrants to Montreal are less inclined than other ethnic minority groups to start their own businesses. The experiences of English Caribbean immigrants are examined in light of the Immigrant Adaptation and the Immigrant and Ethnic Entrepreneurship theories, as well as 13 studies of immigrant entrepreneur groups in Canada. English Caribbean immigrant entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs were surveyed and compared. The non-entrepreneurs identified many obstacles which prevented them from starting businesses: poor motivation towards business creation, insufficient skills and resources, and the weakness of ethnic networks. English Caribbean immigrant entrepreneurs like other immigrant entrepreneurs were both 'pushed' and 'pulled' into self-employment. However. English Caribbean immigrant entrepreneurs depended more on class resources than on ethnic resources, whereas other immigrant entrepreneur groups depended at least as much on their ethnic community as individual class resources and were above all motivated towards starting businesses. Contrary to theory, labour market disadvantages are not the cause of English Caribbean immigrants' low participation in entrepreneurship. Instead, these immigrants are negligibly endowed in class and ethnic resources and their cultural value orientations do not embrace entrepreneurship. Nevertheless, it is feasible to implement policies to improve the potential for self-employment among the English Caribbean community.
Download or read book Understanding the Caribbean Enterprise written by Lawrence A. Nicholson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book fills a substantial gap in the understanding of Caribbean enterprises, focusing upon FOBs (family-owned businesses) about which, despite accounting for 70% of private sector employment in the region, very little is known. Concentrating on MSMEs which represent the majority of FOBs in the English-speaking Caribbean, the authors compare and contrast their experiences to those in developed countries, focusing in particular on areas such as family business succession, business financing and marketing. Understanding the Caribbean Enterprise provides context-specific lessons from a historical perspective of business and entrepreneurship, which in turn provide an understanding of the current issues facing MSMEs and FOBs in the English-speaking Caribbean.
Download or read book Entrepreneurial Women in the Caribbean written by Talia R. Esnard and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting an intersectional lens, this book comparatively examines the multiple processes and systems of power that frame the experiences of female entrepreneurs in the Caribbean and the fluid ways in which they respond to these. Specifically, it challenges entrepreneurial scholars who are concerned with the experiences of women within that sector to critically interrogate interlocking structures of power (e.g. gender, race, class, age, industry-based hierarchies) that operate within that space, the marginalizing effects of related processes, and the extent to which these affect their thinking and practices of female entrepreneurs within the region. Through comparative lenses, the book highlights the structural and relational realities and complexities that undergird the entrepreneurial landscape within the region, the effects of these on the entrepreneurial identities, positionalities, and practices of female entrepreneurs. It underscores the many ways in which they navigate that terrain. In so doing, the book offers critical insights into the historical, socio-cultural and economic parameters within which female entrepreneurs in the region engage, the lived realities associated with these, the prospects or possibilities for re-presenting or re-framing such contextual and discursive spaces. It also provides necessary understandings of the motivations, positions, prospects, possibilities and constrains of entrepreneurial women in the region and the policy implications of these realities. This book offers insights for scholars and policymakers that are important for (i) understanding the current gaps in entrepreneurial research and policy, (ii) the tools, methods, and strategies that are needed to address these contextual and discursive realities, and ultimately, (iii) the ways in which policy makers and local governments can promote the authentic empowerment of female entrepreneurs in the region, while giving considerations to precarious realities of women.
Download or read book Institutional Aspects of West Indian Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Identifying the Obstacles to High Impact Entrepreneurship in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Zoltan J. Acs and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-impact companies are a very important source of economic and job growth. Identifying the drivers and barriers behind their development is key to developing a sound supporting policy framework. The Global Entrepreneurship Development Index (GEDI) can interpret and measure entrepreneurial capacity as a systemic phenomenon. For that reason it provides a powerful means of assessing regional entrepreneurial performance. This paper begins by analyzing GEDI results in order to draw a picture of how well entrepreneurship systems perform in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The lessons drawn from this analysis are deepened through the qualitative analysis of nine case studies on the creation and development of successful high-impact companies in the region.
Download or read book Caribbean Community and Common Market Investment and Business Guide written by USA International Business Publications and published by . This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minority Business Development and Economic Development Policy in New York written by New York (State). Governor's Advisory Committee for Black Affairs. Education Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Private Enterprise in the Caribbean the 1980 s and Beyond written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artikelen t.z.t. invoeren. Artikelen Antilliaanse schrijvers al ingevoerd.
Download or read book Small Enterprise Development in the Caribbean a Background Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference paper on the development of small scale industry in the Caribbean countries - covers institutional framework, size of enterprise, entrepreneurship and employment creation effects, and includes statistical tables on occupational structure. References. Conference held in Grenada 1979 jan 8 to 11.
Download or read book Intelligent Economies written by Stacey-Ann Wilson and published by Informing Science Press. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The small island developing states of the Caribbean have been slowing adopting initiatives and technologies that will bring them closer to their aspirations of being robust digital societies. The authors of this volume are academics and technologists who are actively engaged in the Caribbean technology for development ecosystem. This volume explores three broad themes: the political economy of developing intelligent economies in the Caribbean; culture and the intelligent economy, specifically, how Caribbean creative industries and technology can be leveraged in this new environment; and business and the intelligent economy, with special focus on the gig economy, business intelligence, agriculture, makerspaces, and corporation innovation.
Download or read book Caribbean Community and Common Market Their Implications For United States Business written by United States. Domestic and International Business Administration and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Accelerating Trade and Integration in the Caribbean written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009-07-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main objective of this report is to help policymakers in the Caribbean design an agenda of policy actions to accelerate trade integration and growth and reduce poverty. The report is a joint response from the World Bank and the Organization of American States (OAS) to a demand statement from the member states of CARICOM, formulated by the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery and the CARICOM Secretariat, to strengthen the analytical underpinnings of the linkages between trade, economic growth, and poverty. It aims at centering the Caribbean's next round of trade reforms and its overall agenda around trade on these key thematic areas. The report provides an overview of the economic and trade system context of the Caribbean, under which the new trade environment is operating. It then discusses the opportunities and challenges for the Caribbean associated with the new trade environment. It finally quantifies the gains from global trade integration using a dynamic macroeconomic analysis. The report provides policy priorities to accelerating Caribbean integration into the world economy and to reap the benefits of global competition. Each part of the report focuses on a key question and adds value by providing an in-depth analysis of the issues raised and laying the foundations for policy recommendations described in the last chapter of the report: * Part I (Overview of economic and trade system context): is Caribbean's economic and trade system sound enough to sustain the new era of its global trade relations which is being shaped? * Part II (Focuses on the analysis of the new opportunities and challenges of the new trade environment): what are the opportunities and challenges that the new trade environment offers to the Caribbean? * Part III (Presents an assessment of the impact of the EPA on growth and poverty using two types of macroeconomic models): what are the gains in terms of growth and poverty reduction of the recently negotiated EPA?
