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DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
− Member, Jamaica Education Transformation Commission − Member, Supervisory Committee of the Bank of Jamaica − Member, Financial Policy Committee of the Bank of Jamaica − Member, Board of Directors, Planning Institute of Jamaica Patrice Whitely − Member, Jamaican Economy Panel − Member, St Andrew Parish Church Foundation Board − Member, St Andrew Parish Church Legal Advisory Service
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Research Funding During the review period, Dr Nekeisha Spencer spearheaded a research project entitled “ The Impact of Natural Disasters on the Local Real Estate Market ”. The research aimed to quantify how extreme climate events affect the Jamaican real estate market, intending to provide information to guide policy decisions regard- ing preparedness and adaptation. The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) funded the project for US$25,000. Summer School Summer school remained a viable income-generating activity for the Department and the University. As in the past, the Department’s summer school programme delivered all level I and core courses and some third-level electives, totalling nine- teen (19) courses during Summer school 2022/23, and 634 registered students. The surplus as of July 31 stood at $12,902,688. Scholarships The Department currently has four scholarship commitments, three at the grad- uate level and one at the undergraduate level with the following yearly amounts: Thomas De La Rue Scholarship in Economics, for Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars ($700,000.00), the G. Arthur Brown Scholarship valued at Nine Hundred Thou- sand Dollars ($900,000.00), Colin Fitz-Herbert Bullock (CFB) Scholarship valued at J$1.8M and the Dr Nittalla Murthy Scholarship valued at One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty United States Dollars ( US$1750).
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