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The Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) is a public policy think tank based at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica. [1] The think tank's executive director is Dr. Damien King, Jamaican economist and lecturer in economics at the University of the West Indies, Mona.
Life and Debt is a 2001 United States documentary film directed by Stephanie Black about the economic and social situation in Jamaica after globalization, specifically the impact of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank's policies. It starts with the essay "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid. The IMF loans were conditional on ...
This saw the development of a duopoly which was composed of two labor organized parties: the People's National Party; led by Norman Manley in 1938, and the Jamaica Labour Party; led by Alexander Bustamante in 1943. In the mid-1940s, the JLP and Bustamante held the majority in Jamaica's limited-autonomy government under the authority of the ...
Public Administration and Development is a peer-reviewed academic journal which covers practice of public administration at the local, regional, national and international levels where it is directed to managing development processes in low and medium income countries. [1]
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a term that was first introduced by Gordon Guyatt. [10] Nevertheless, examples of EBM can be traced back to the early 1900s. Some contend that the earliest instance of EBM dates back to the 11th century when Ben Cao Tu Jing from the Song dynasty suggested a method to evaluate the efficacy of ginseng.
The Jamaica Information Service was established in 1956. [3] At its inception, the agency was first known as the Government Public Relations Office (GPRO), which was primarily concerned with issuing press releases and maintaining good relations between the press and the Government.
Fayval Williams was the chairman of one of Jamaica's leading media entity Nationwide News Network. She also hosted a daily financial programme on the radio station called Global Markets. On her entry into representational politics, she divested her interest in the media house. [ 70 ]
Development Policy Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell 6 times a year on behalf of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). The journal was established in 1966 and focuses on the links between research and policy in international development, addressing contemporary questions from a range of disciplines across the social sciences.