Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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39 p., Restrictions on travel to Cuba have been a key and often contentious component in US efforts to isolate Cuba's communist government since the early 1960s. Under the George W. Bush Administration, restrictions on travel and on private remittances to Cuba were tightened. Congress took action in March 2009 by including two provisions in the FY2009 omnibus appropriations measure (P.L. 111-8) that eased restrictions on family travel and travel related to marketing and sale of agricultural and medical goods to Cuba -- Subsequently, in April 2009, President Obama announced that his Administration would go further and allow unlimited family travel and remittances. Tables.
Martin,Tony (Author) and Emancipation Support Committee (Author)
Format:
Pamphlet
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Dover, MA: Majority Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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A lecture launching the 1997 commemoration of Emancipation delivered for the Emancipation Support Committee at Spektakula Forum, Port of Spain, on June 22, 1997., 28 p.
Washington: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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15 p., In 1974 the MSRC published this bibliography in Porter's honor. Dr. Michael R. Winston reported: "The Research Center staff is pleased that its first public service bibliography is dedicated to Dr. Porter, whose example as a librarian and scholar is a sturdy foundation for future development."
Tunapuna, T'dad, W.I.: Research Associates School Times Publication
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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32 p., A biography of the black nationalist leader who worked to improve conditions for black workers in his native country of Jamaica and pledged to free Africa from white colonial rule and establish a black homeland there.
United Nations. High Commissioner on Human Rights (Author)
Format:
Pamphlet
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Geneva: United Nations
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Held in Montevideo from 7 to 9 May 2003., 27 p., Includes concrete conclusions and recommendations on poverty reduction, development, land ownership, access to employment, participation in public life, discrimination and the law, torture and the excessive use of force, health, education, cultural identity, religion and housing.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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32 p., Follows the island's history from colony to independence and beyond. Fabulous images and special spreads on food and life in a Maroon village show a side of Jamaica not depicted in tourist pamphlets. Other topics include: The Taino people -- Jamaica's first inhabitants; The slave trade and the plantation system; Pirates of the Caribbean; Rebellion and resistance to slavery and oppression; Jamaican heroes such as Paul Bogle ,Nanny, Marcus Garvey and Alexander Bustamante; Jamaican influence abroad and Jamaican foods made famous.
Florida International University. Latin American and Caribbean Center (Author)
Format:
Pamphlet
Publication Date:
2002-2007?
Published:
Miami, Florida: Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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24 p., Describes the Center and its history, academic programs, affiliated institutions, and lists its staff and core faculty. Also see information at url: https://lacc.fiu.edu/about/.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Index number: AMR 38/004/2011, 14 pp., Amnesty International is submitting this briefing to the Human Rights Committee ahead of its examination of Jamaica's third periodic report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The document briefly highlights main aspects of Amnesty International's on-going human rights concerns in Jamaica as well as human rights violations which occurred in the context of the state of emergency between 23 May and 22 July 2010.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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39 p., On 23 May 2010, the Governor-General of Jamaica declared a State of Public Emergency in the parishes of Kingston and St Andrew. Within two days, at least 74 people, including one member of the security forces, had been killed in Tivoli Gardens in West Kingston, and at least 54 others, more than half of them members of the security forces, were injured during police operations. Despite the loss of life and compelling testimonies of grave human rights violations -- including possible extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary arrests -- investigations into the violence have yet to establish the facts and the responsibilities conclusively.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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10 p., In analyzing Jamaica's Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review, Amnesty International raises concerns about the new Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, a series of "anti-crime" bills, the death penalty, the restrictive definition of "rape" in the new Sexual Offences Act, legislation which criminalizes sexual acts in private between consenting male adults, and outstanding ratifications. The organization also describes concerns in relation to human rights violations by the police; violence against women and girls; attacks against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons; children in custody; and violence in inner-city communities.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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45 p., Presents some of the key law enforcement and socioeconomic policy lessons from one type of response to urban slums controlled by non-state actors: namely, when the government resorts to physically retaking urban spaces that had been ruled by criminal or insurgent groups and where the state's presence had been inadequate or sometimes altogether nonexistent. Focuses specifically on Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Jamaica.
Burger,John (Author), Rebucci,Alessandro (Author), Warnock,Francis E. (Author), and Warnock,Veronica (Author)
Format:
Pamphlet
Publication Date:
May 2010
Published:
Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
39 p., This paper assesses the extent to which a country's external capital structure can aid in mitigating the macroeconomic impact of oil price shocks. Two Caribbean economies highly vulnerable to oil price shocks are considered: an oil importer (Jamaica) and an oil exporter (Trinidad and Tobago). From a risk-sharing perspective, a desirable external capital structure is one that, through international capital gains and losses, helps offset responses of the current account balance to external shocks. It is found that both countries could alter their international portfolio to provide a better buffer against such shocks.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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60 p., Explains how the implementation of the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union should serve as an impetus for stakeholders in the region to address these barriers thereby creating favorable conditions for the production and export of Caribbean entertainment services. Presents an overview of policies in the creative sector in terms of the promotion of services exports in selected CARICOM states: Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Gertler,Paul (Author), Heckman,James (Author), Pinto,Rodrigo (Author), Zanolini,Arianna (Author), Vermeerch,Christel (Author), Walker,Susan (Author), Chang,Susan M. (Author), and Grantham-McGregor,Sally (Author)
Format:
Pamphlet
Publication Date:
June 2013
Published:
National Bureau of Economic Research
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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58 p., Shows large effects on the earnings of participants from a randomized intervention that gave psychosocial stimulation to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community Jamaican health workers over a 2-year period that taught parenting skills and encouraged mothers to interact and play with their children in ways that would develop their children's cognitive and personality skills. Study participants were re-interviewed 20 years after the intervention. Findings show that psychosocial stimulation early in childhood in disadvantaged settings can have substantial effects on labor market outcomes and reduce later life inequality.
1 online resource (20 pages), The small economies of the Caribbean have entered a period of extraordinary economic uncertainty driven by the impact of new trade rules on the region's agricultural sector; dramatic advances in technology that have lowered barriers to entry; and fierce global competition from large, low-wage countries in Asia. Furthermore, the Caribbean nations' ability to sustain a high level of social well-being is suffering due to the effects of broader economic change that has left the region in a reactive position. Against this backdrop, the services sector in the Caribbean may serve as an important source of economic growth, but only if the region begins to move beyond tourism to take advantage of emerging opportunities in the areas of banking and financial services, call centres and information and communication technology, off-shore education and health services, and transportation. This essay assesses the future prospects for the Caribbean to create a thriving service-based economy and offers ideas to help the region to both build on and transcend its reliance on tourism to carve a more profitable and sustainable niche in the global economy. Tables, Figures, References.
Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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4 p., In early 2010, in an effort to address its unsustainable debt burden, and as a pre-condition for an IMF agreement, Jamaica undertook a debt exchange that sought to lower interest rates and extend maturities but did not provide any haircut (a lowering of the debt principal). As part of the IMF agreement, Jamaica undertook severe austerity measures, freezing wages and cutting spending. Even after the debt exchange, Jamaica was left with the highest debt interest burden in the world. Although the IMF agreement eventually broke down, Jamaica has largely continued the austerity measures from the first agreement. Three years after the IMF agreement was signed and the debt exchange completed, Jamaica once again turned to the IMF and undertook a new exchange. Once again, the exchange only affected domestically held debt and did not reduce the principal. Once again, the conditions may prove unsustainable. The recently signed IMF agreement, together with funding from the World Bank and IDB, will give Jamaica access to some $2 billion dollars of loans over the next four-plus years. But it is also the case that, after billions of dollars of previous World Bank, IDB and IMF loans, much of its debt is actually owed to the very same institutions that are now offering new loans. This issue brief looks at the case for multilateral debt cancellation in Jamaica.
24 pp., This paper looks at Jamaica's recent history of indebtedness, its experience during the global economic downturn, and examines its current agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It finds that Jamaica's economic and social progress has suffered considerably from the burden of an unsustainable debt; and that even after the debt restructuring of 2010, this burden remains unsustainable and very damaging. Pro-cyclical macroeconomic policies, implemented under the auspices of the IMF, have also damaged Jamaica's recent and current economic prospects.
