Early response measures taken by the Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, including the timely activation of the operation center, allowed for a rapid response to the volcanic eruptions…

Lilia Burunciuc, Decima Corea, Elad Shenfeld |

This year, the World Food Programme (WFP) estimates that 40 percent of the population – or 2.8 million people - in the English-speaking Caribbean struggle to access adequate food and remain food…

Lilia Burunciuc |

New Evidence from Telephone Surveys Provides Insights for Increasing COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Uptake in the Caribbean

Amy Margolies, Jacobus de Hoop, Phillis Kim, Anna Luisa Paffhausen, Laura Di Giorgio |

For more than a million people (estimated 15% of the Caribbean population) who have physical, sensory, and intellectual disabilities, disasters are more daunting prospects than usual. Read the new…

Linda Anderson-Berry, Ronette Jordan, Naraya Carrasco |

With almost two-thirds of the workforce comfortably absorbed by the tourism industry, most Eastern Caribbean governments delayed the diversification of their economies. This economic model is…

Diego Angel-Urdinola, Cynthia Marchioni |

Natural hazards are gender neutral; however, they do not affect all members of society equally. For instance, women are more vulnerable to the adverse economic effects of natural hazards, due to…

Karen Sirker |

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the education of thousands of students in the Eastern Caribbean States. A World Bank study findings reveal why addressing these education issues is…

Diego Angel-Urdinola, Denise Stolt, Romina Miorelli |

"We should not see ourselves as small island developing states, we must shift the paradigm to large ocean states."

Sylvia Michele Diez, David Adeyemi Aromokeye, Jorge Barbosa |

Caribbean nations offer valuable lessons on how to mitigate the effects of shocks, like natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic, through more resilient public financial management (PFM)…

Tracey Marie Lane, Ruxandra Burdescu, Leah April |

Effective management of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) can offer countries a layer of defense for fiscal resilience and sustainability when resources become scarce due to natural disasters.

Ruxandra Burdescu, Jana Kunicova, Joy ten Berge |