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Caribbean Diaspora: How Can They Finance Development in the Region?
The Caribbean diaspora is huge and members tend to send significant amount of remittances back to the region to help relatives and to invest in property and family businesses. It is estimated that Caribbean migrants number 4,116,000 in the United States (1.2% of the total population and remitted approximately US$5 billion in 2013. Other countries with large populations of … [Read more...] about Caribbean Diaspora: How Can They Finance Development in the Region?
Biomass Gasification: An Option to Reduce Energy Costs in Rice Milling
Photo courtesy Mark Wenner. View of Rice husk intake into top of gasifier by Luis Miguel Aparicio and Mark Wenner Many agroprocessing activities require significant amounts of energy to produce the food and beverages we consume. In the case of rice milling, energy is needed to dry unhulled rice to an ideal moisture level of 14%, to separate the husk from the grain, to … [Read more...] about Biomass Gasification: An Option to Reduce Energy Costs in Rice Milling
Reducing, Reusing, Recycling and Recovering Waste the Bajan Way
The operations team of the Barbados Country Office of the Inter-American Development Bank decided to do something differently last month. Instead of its weekly operations meeting inside the comfortable air-conditioned Country Office conference room, the team ventured out on a mission to the Solid Waste Project Unit of the Ministry of Environment and Drainage, the Sustainable … [Read more...] about Reducing, Reusing, Recycling and Recovering Waste the Bajan Way
Rethinking the growth diagnostics framework
In identifying binding constraints to growth of developing member countries, ADB and other multilateral development banks have adopted the Hausmann-Rodrick-Velasco methodology. In principle the methodology is relatively straightforward: by looking at all the possible constraints to private investment—the main driver of economic growth in a given country–in comparison to its … [Read more...] about Rethinking the growth diagnostics framework