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Moving from Infancy to Young Adulthood is a contemporary review of the development of the Virgin Islands (BVI) within an economic and political context. Specifically, this book is an excellent medium presenting contemporary perspectives of how the BVI has grown and evolved over the past 5060 years. - - Whenever a country is seriously considering its development path over a period of time, it must engage in national development and nation building activities, which will allow its citizens to accelerate and inevitably enhance their quality of life. This book explores these possibilities and comments on the present systems that must be reviewed carefully before future development projects are undertaken in the BVI. - - Overall, this book will be of interest to island scholars, practitioners, policy makers and students who are interested in the research of small islands within the Caribbean. In particular, persons concentrating in Virgin Islands Studies will find this book a must-read. - -
Economic development --- Political development --- Development, Political --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Political science --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- British Virgin Islands --- Economic conditions. --- E-books --- Virgin Islands of Great Britain --- B.V.I. --- BVI --- Colony of the Virgin Islands --- V.I. --- Virgin Islands (Great Britain)
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The author uses archaeological and archival information to reveal the everyday life of this group of Quakers residing in the British Virgin Islands between 1741 and 1763. He traces this discreet group of mostly poor, white planters settled on Tortola in the community of Little Jost van Dyke from the earliest documented appearance in the 1740 records, through the final census--which showed only five enslaved inhabitants remaining in the community.
Material culture --- Archaeology and history --- Religion and sociology --- Plantation life --- Slavery --- Quakers --- Historical archaeology --- History and archaeology --- History --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Country life --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Friends --- Friends (Quakers) --- Society of Friends --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- British Virgin Islands --- Virgin Islands of Great Britain --- B.V.I. --- BVI --- Colony of the Virgin Islands --- V.I. --- Virgin Islands (Great Britain) --- Religious life and customs. --- Antiquities. --- Enslaved persons
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This report provides an assessment of the British Virgin Islands’s (BVI) compliance with the Basel Core Principle for effective banking supervision. The BVI has the preconditions for effective banking supervision. It has specific legislation governing international cooperation and mutual legal assistance. The BVI has designed its antimoney laundering (AML)/combating the financing of terrorism supervisory legislation to apply broadly to banks and trust companies, insurance business, and parallel areas. The financial services commission is responsible for both prudential supervision and ensuring compliance with AML measures.
British Virgin Islands --- Virgin Islands of Great Britain --- B.V.I. --- BVI --- Colony of the Virgin Islands --- V.I. --- Virgin Islands (Great Britain) --- Economic conditions. --- Economic policy. --- Insurance --- Industries: Financial Services --- Criminology --- Pension Funds --- Non-bank Financial Institutions --- Financial Instruments --- Institutional Investors --- Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation --- Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law --- Insurance Companies --- Actuarial Studies --- Finance --- Corporate crime --- white-collar crime --- Insurance & actuarial studies --- Financial services --- Mutual funds --- Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) --- Insurance companies --- Financial institutions --- Crime --- Financial services industry --- Money laundering
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The British Virgin Islands (BVI) markets itself to international visitors as a paradise. But just whose paradise is it? Colleen Ballerino Cohen looks at the many players in the BVI tourism culture, from the tourists who leave their graffiti at beach bars that are popularized in song, to the waiters who serve them and the singers who entertain them. Interweaving more than twenty years of field notes, Cohen provides a firsthand analysis of how tourism transformed the BVI from a small neglected British colony to a modern nation that competes in a global economic market. With its close reading of everything from advertisements to political manifestos and constitutional reforms, Take Me to My Paradise deepens our understanding of how nationalism develops hand-in-hand with tourism, and documents the uneven impact of economic prosperity upon different populations. We hear multiple voices, including immigrants working in a tourism economy, nationalists struggling to maintain some control, and the anthropologist trying to make sense of it all. The result is a richly detailed and accessible ethnography on the impact of tourism on a country that came into being as a tourist destination.
British Virgin Islands -- Social life and customs. --- Culture and tourism -- British Virgin Islands. --- Nationalism -- British Virgin Islands. --- Tourism -- British Virgin Islands. --- Tourism --- Culture and tourism --- Nationalism --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Travel & Tourism --- British Virgin Islands --- Social life and customs. --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- Ethnotourism --- Tourism and culture --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Economic aspects --- Virgin Islands of Great Britain --- B.V.I. --- BVI --- Colony of the Virgin Islands --- V.I. --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Virgin Islands (Great Britain) --- #SBIB:316.7C440 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Toerisme en vakantie: algemeen --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning
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