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Congratulations to Dr. Stephen Johnson on his recent publication
Congratulations to Dr. Stephen Johnson on his recent publication.
Evaluating the effects of Cannabis reform...
DPP to tap finance, justice ministries for more staff to keep witnesses and victims informed of court dates, progress
DPP to tap finance, justice ministries for more staff to keep witnesses and victims informed of court dates, progress
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‘Envisioning Jamaica’s Health Futures’ UWI Round Table Forum advances discussion on the future of healthcare
The future of healthcare in Jamaica took the spotlight on Monday, as policymakers in public health gathered for knowledge and...
Health Minister, Dr.Tufton says Jamaica must establish a national health insurance programme to combat rising costs of healthcare
Health Minister, Dr. Christopher Tufton, says Jamaica must move toward establishing a national health insurance programme...
SALISES seeks solutions to political apathy through national study
The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), in partnership with Behavioural Dynamics Solutions Ltd,...
The UWI SALISES Launches Groundbreaking National Study on Artificial Intelligence in Kingston, Jamaica
The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at The UWI, Mona Campus is proud to announce the launch of a National Study on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices...
Latest Special Issue of the Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies now available
The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES),
The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
announces the latest Special Issue of its...
Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Williams on his latest publication
Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Williams on his latest publication.
Remittances and government expenditures on human capital...
UWI signs new partnership agreement with Institute of Development Studies (UK)
UWI signs new partnership agreement with Institute of Development Studies (UK)
At the 25th Annual SALISES...
A SALISES-UWI and Haiti-Jamaica Society Outreach (SHOUT) project for Haiti
The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), at The University of the West Indies (UWI), has embarked on an outreach and support effort for the children of Haiti. In particular,...
Congratulations to Dr. Arlene Bailey on her new publication
Book Chapter:
Davison, R. M., Díaz Andrade, A., Bailey, A., Ruhode, E., Walsham, G., van Belle, J. P., ... & Karanasios, S. (2024). Past Practices, Current Debates and Disputes:...
Congratulations to Dr. Dacia Leslie on her latest publications
Congratulations to Dr. Dacia Leslie on her recent publications:
Leslie, D. (2024). Exploring the infeasibility of enforcing mandatory in-prison...
Congratulations to Dr. Bephyer Parey on her latest publication
Congratulations to Dr. Bephyer Parey on her latest publication "Potential of carers to meet care needs among older adults...
Congrats to our SALISES colleagues on their new publication
Congratulations to our SALISES colleagues Professor Corin Bailey, Dr....
New Publication from Dr Arlene Bailey
Congratulations to Dr. Arlene Bailey on her new Publication
Windeler, Jaime B., Urquhart, Cathy, Thatcher, Jason B., Carter, Michelle, and Bailey, Arlene...
Dacia Leslie | An efficient police record process critical to Vision 2030
As Jamaica aspires to achieve its Vision 2030 goals within the next seven years, a critical hurdle stands in the way. The ramifications of inefficiencies linked to obtaining a police record reverberate...
COVID-19 impact study receives UWI Principal’s special award
AT THE recent UWI Principal’s Research Awards Ceremony, a study, titled ‘The Socio-economic Impact Assessment of COVID-19 and Policy Options in Jamaica’, conducted jointly by the United Nations Development...
Congratulations to Dr. Dacia Leslie and Mrs Thelma White
Congratulations to Dr. Dacia Leslie and Mrs Thelma White on their recent publication "Giving critical theoretical and evaluation practice context to ‘Testing, Testing’ in Jamaica." Authors...
New publication from Dr Kevin Williams
Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Williams on his latest publication.
Kafour, N and Williams, K. 2023. A source of funding for illicit activities or a solution to crime? Evidence from remittance...
Researcher: Adjustments must be made to Equal Opportunity Act
Dr Bephyer Parey, an educator and researcher at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at UWI, St Augustine believes greater effort should be made towards people with...
London School of Economics names building in honour of Sir Arthur Lewis
A Jamaica Gleaner article by Erica Virtue/Senior Gleaner Writer
... Lewis in 1979 won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and served as an economic adviser to many international commissions and to...
Recent publication from Dr Kevin Williams
Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Williams on his latest publication.
Williams, K. (2023). “The impact of trade on schooling over the last five decades in developing countries.”
ABSTRACT...
Recent publication from Dr. Arlene Bailey
Congratulations to Dr. Arlene Bailey on her latest publication.
Book chapter
Pschetz, L., Bailey, A., Rankin, J., Enright, J., & Wilson, M. (2022). Designing with...
Congratulations to Dr Bephyer Parey
Congratulations to Dr. Bephyer Parey, recepient of the 2022 UWI/Guardian Group Premium Teaching Awards.
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Congratulations to Dr. Dacia Leslie on the release of co-edited book - Critical Caribbean Perspectives on Preventing Gender-based Violence
Book Description
This book explores the widespread problem of gender-based violence in the Anglophone Caribbean, exploring reasons for its perpetuation and proposing viable policy...
SALISES Policy Brief Issue 4 - January 2022
SALISES Policy Brief Issue 4 entitled "Rural Development and Rural Non-Farm Enterprise Interventions in Jamaica: Policy Lessons from Three Case Studies" now available online....
Apply now SALISES MSc Development Statistics programme
Statistics tell a story of who we are. They provide a foundation for impacting decisions geared towards improving our future well-being. This programme provides practical, advanced training in the...
Interview with Dr. Arlene Bailey on Socioeconomic Impact Assessment (SEIA) study on Jamaica
Interview with Dr. Arlene Bailey, Senior Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) on the UNDP/SALISES/CaPRI 2021 Socioeconomic Impact Assessment (SEIA) study on...
Interview with Dr. Patricia Northover on Food Security
Interview with Dr. Patricia Northover, Senior Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) on Food Security leading up to the SALISES 22nd Annual Conference held on...
Recent publications from Dr Preeya Mohan
Congratulations to Dr. Preeya Mohan on her latest publications.
1. Journal Tourism Economics entitled "The impact of...
Recent publications from Dr. Bephyer Parey
Congratulations to Dr. Bephyer Parey on her latest journal articles:
1. Wellbeing among older persons with disabilities in Trinidad. Health and Social Care in the Community....
Congratulations Dr Dacia Leslie
Dr Leslie received the Principal's Award for Best Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) Publication, for the Academic year, 2019/2020 for her book entitled ""Recidivism in the Caribbean - Improving the...
Congratulations to Dr. Natalie Deitrich-Jones and Dr. Godfrey St. Bernard
Congratulations to Dr. Natalie Deitrich-Jones and ...
Recent publication by Professor Eric Strobl and Dr Preeya Mohan - Climate and the Global Spread and Impact of Bananas’ Black Leaf Sigatoka Disease
Abstract
While Black Sigatoka Leaf Disease (Mycosphaerella fijiensis) has arguably been the most important pathogen affecting the banana industry over the past 50 years, there are no...
Recent publication by Dr Preeya Mohan - The impact of tropical storms on the accumulation and composition of government debt
The impact of tropical storms on the accumulation and composition of government debt
Abstract
This paper investigates the impact of tropical storms on government debt...
NATFATIP to receive library collection on human trafficking (to be housed at SALISES)
Efforts to eliminate human trafficking in Jamaica are to be significantly boosted with the handover of an extensive library collection on sex trafficking and human...
New publication from Dr. Bephyer Parey
Congratulations to Dr. Bephyer Parey, Postdoctoral Fellow, SALISES St. Augustine, on the publication of her latest journal article in the journal SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH published by Springer entitled "...
New publication from Dr. Hamid Ghany
New publications from Dr. Hamid Ghany in the Journal of Legislative Studies entitled:
"Correcting Arend Lijphart's Hybrid VI : the case of Guyana"....
New publications from Dr. Preeya Mohan and Dr. Bephyer Parey
Dr. Preeya Mohan, Fellow, in the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (see link below)
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JECS is now open access
JOURNAL OF EASTERN CARIBBEAN STUDIES
The current online issue is serialised Volume 44, Number 1 April 2019. 2018 is to be treated as a gap year. Take advantage of our uploaded...
Recent publication by Dr Preeya Mohan - Natural Hazard-Induced Disasters and Production Efficiency: Moving Closer to or Further from the Frontier?
Authors - Preeya S. Mohan, Nekeisha Spencer and Eric Strobl
Abstract
Production efficiency is a key determinant of economic growth and demonstrates how a country uses its...
Recent publication by Dr Arlene Bailey et al. (2019) - ICT Use in the Context of Electricity Access in a Developing Country: A Choice Framework Analysis
Authors - Arlene Bailey, Aldrie Henry-Lee, Yhanore Johnson-Coke, Richard Leach, Anthony Clayton, Matt Gee, Oliver Browne
Part of the IFIP Advances in Information...
Dr Preeya Mohan most recent article in The Small States & Territories Journal
Small state diplomacy and global competitiveness
Abstract: Competitiveness is not only an economic matter; it is also a foreign policy issue. It requires the coordinated action of...
New Book entitled, "Recidivism in the Caribbean - Improving the Reintegration of Jamaican Ex-prisoners" by Dr Dacia Leslie, Research Fellow at SALISES, Mona
Introduction
This book provides a detailed and practical exploration of criminal recidivism and social reintegration in Jamaica. It uses various methods...
Congratulations to SALISES Research Teams for winning Principal’s Research Days Awards for 2019
Research Project with the Greatest Business / Economic / Development Impact
Project: “Government of Jamaica (GOJ)/United Nations Development...
Dr Kevin Williams recent publications
Journal article "Do political institutions improve the diminishing effect of financial deepening on growth? Evidence from developing countries"...
Dr Preeya Mohan most recent article in The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
The Impact of Natural Disasters on the Banking Sector: Evidence from Hurricane Strikes in the Caribbean
by Michael Brei, Preeya Mohan and Eric Strobl
Abstract
While natural disasters...