Jamaica’s Budget and IMF Agreement, JUST
Jamaicans United For Sustainable Development We commend the efforts of the Minister of Finance in coming to grips with some of the most difficult problems in the economy (but) relentless efforts must...
View ArticleJamaica: Macroeconomic Policy, Debt and the IMF, Jake Johnston and Juan...
IMF Agreement Could Worsen Debt Burden, Harm Health and Education Published by the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., this paper finds that Jamaica’s economic and social...
View ArticleLessons for Greece of Jamaica’s debt crisis, Mark Weisbrot
From The Guardian, UK, 22 July 2011 Some have pointed to the Jamaican debt restructuring of last year as a model for Greece…It is worth a closer look at what has been done to Jamaica, not only as a...
View ArticleGrowing Out of Debt: Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis and the IMF, Colin Bullock
Address to the St Kitts and Nevis Chamber of Commerce on June 23, 2011. Colin Bullock is a former Financial Secretary and senior central bank official of Jamaica. I thank the Chamber of Commerce of St...
View ArticleVideo on IMF Programmes in the Caribbean, CEPR
Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, debates Therese Turner-Jones, Deputy Caribbean II Division Chief at the International Monetary Fund on the IMF’s policies in...
View ArticleWanted: An Audit of Jamaica’s Debt, Lloyd D’Aguilar
Webmaster’s note: as Jamaica faces yet another round of austerity measures in a desperate attempt to get back on track with its latest IMF programme, a call has been made for debt repudiation backed up...
View ArticleThe Case for a Forensic Audit of Jamaica’s Public Debt, Lloyd D’Aguilar
It has been suggested that as much as 70 percent of Jamaica’s public debt may be illegitimate., The following is a list of twenty-one questionable projects and dealings which need investigation. It...
View ArticleJamaica: debt, the IMF and economic stagnation; CEPR Report
“The paper notes that Jamaica remains one of the most highly indebted countries in the world, and that its interest payments as a percent of GDP were higher than anywhere else in the world in 2011,...
View ArticleJamaicanisation of the eurozone, Mark Weisbrot
Jamaica appears to be approaching the 50th anniversary of its independence in a state of virtual debt bondage and IMF trusteeship. Mark Weisbrot argues that the austerity programme being imposed on the...
View ArticleA Jamaica 50 Message, Hope McNish
A nation that is not subject to manipulation by external powers and the dictates of international funding institutions,, scientific and technological support and for farmers in organic farming, a...
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