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Feeding Markets, Facing Shocks: Dawgen CARI-VAL Agri™ for Valuing Agriculture and Agribusiness in the Caribbean

December 1, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Agriculture and agribusiness sit at the intersection of food security, rural livelihoods and export earnings in Jamaica, the wider Caribbean and Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC). From sugar, bananas and coffee to poultry, livestock, fresh produce, spices, agro-processing and input supply, the sector is both strategic and vulnerable. For governments, lenders, family owners and...

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Resilience, Scale and Efficiency: Dawgen CARI-VAL Manufacturing™ for Industrial Valuations in a Volatile World

November 30, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Manufacturing and industrial businesses are critical to diversifying Caribbean and LAC economies. From food and beverages, building materials and packaging, to chemicals, plastics, light engineering and assembly, they create jobs, generate FX, and deepen local value chains. Yet when a business owner, lender, investor or potential buyer asks: “What is this factory or industrial...

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Beyond Occupancy: Dawgen CARI-VAL Tourism™ for Valuing Hotels, Resorts and Tourism Assets in the Caribbean

November 30, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Tourism is the lifeblood of many Caribbean economies. Hotels, resorts, villas, attractions, marinas, cruise terminals, destination management companies (DMCs) and ancillary services collectively power employment, foreign exchange earnings and real estate development across the region. But when an owner, lender, investor or potential buyer asks: “What is this hotel or tourism asset really worth?” …the...

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Power, Regulation and Transition: Dawgen CARI-VAL Energy™ for Valuing Utilities and Renewable Assets in the Caribbean

November 30, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Electricity and energy companies are the circulatory system of a modern economy. In the Caribbean and wider Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC), they are also at the centre of three major structural forces: The push for energy security and reduced dependence on imported fossil fuels The imperative of decarbonisation and climate resilience The demand...

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Applying Dawgen CARI-VAL Insure™ to Insurance & Pension Valuation

November 30, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Insurance companies and pension funds play a quiet but critical role in the Caribbean and wider Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC) region. They pool risk, provide long-term savings, support home ownership and business continuity, and act as major institutional investors in government and corporate securities. Yet when a board, regulator, shareholder or potential buyer...

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Valuing Caribbean Banks in a Digital Age: The Dawgen CARI-VAL Bank™ Framework

November 30, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Banks are not just another sector in the Caribbean economy — they are the financial operating system for households, businesses and governments. They intermediate savings, provide FX, support trade, process payments and increasingly deliver digital financial services. So when a shareholder, regulator, board or potential investor asks: “What is this bank really worth?” …the answer...

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Managing the Tax Burden on Capital: Turning EATRs, EMTRs and Cost-of-Capital Analytics into Boardroom Tools

November 29, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Corporate tax is no longer just “25% on the slide in the board pack.” For capital-intensive and growing businesses in Jamaica, the wider Caribbean and LAC, the real tax cost of investment is driven by how quickly you can depreciate assets, how inventories are valued, whether you benefit from allowances for corporate equity (ACE), and...

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Reading the CbCR Data: What Multinational Reporting Reveals About Profit Shifting and Tax Risk

November 28, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR) has quietly become one of the most powerful transparency tools in international taxation. For large multinational enterprise (MNE) groups, it is no longer just a compliance obligation – it is a data set that tax authorities, policymakers and increasingly boards themselves use to assess where profits are booked, where activities happen, and...

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End of the Race to the Bottom? Stabilising Corporate Tax Rates and the New Global Tax Order

November 28, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

For more than two decades, finance ministers and tax directors have lived with an assumption:corporate tax rates will keep trending down as jurisdictions compete for investment. The latest OECD Corporate Tax Statistics 2025 suggest that moment has passed. Statutory corporate income tax (CIT) rates have stopped falling and are now broadly stable, even though they...

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Financing the Future Grid: Mobilising Capital for Climate-Resilient Transmission in Latin America and the Caribbean

November 27, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Transmission has become the critical bottleneck in Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC) energy transition. It is no longer a background asset class—it is the hinge on which renewable integration, reliability, and economic competitiveness now turn. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) makes this explicit in its technical note “Unlocking the Grid: How to Ensure Reliable...

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Feeding Markets, Facing Shocks: Dawgen CARI-VAL Agri™ for Valuing Agriculture and Agribusiness in the Caribbean

Resilience, Scale and Efficiency: Dawgen CARI-VAL Manufacturing™ for Industrial Valuations in a Volatile World

Beyond Occupancy: Dawgen CARI-VAL Tourism™ for Valuing Hotels, Resorts and Tourism Assets in the Caribbean

Power, Regulation and Transition: Dawgen CARI-VAL Energy™ for Valuing Utilities and Renewable Assets in the Caribbean

Applying Dawgen CARI-VAL Insure™ to Insurance & Pension Valuation

Valuing Caribbean Banks in a Digital Age: The Dawgen CARI-VAL Bank™ Framework

Managing the Tax Burden on Capital: Turning EATRs, EMTRs and Cost-of-Capital Analytics into Boardroom Tools

End of the Race to the Bottom? Stabilising Corporate Tax Rates and the New Global Tax Order

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