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Jamaica was hit hard by the pandemic. An early lockdown in the Spring of 2020 helped contain the number of Covid-19 …
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performance is on track, in spite of the difficult economic environment. Jamaica’s four-year, SDR 615 million (225 percent of …
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Extended arrangement. On May 1, 2013, the IMF Executive Board approved a request by the Jamaican authorities for a four-year Extended Arrangement in an amount of SDR 615.38 million (225 percent of quota) with a first purchase equal to 50 percent of quota. Economic developments. Growth has...
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This Selected Issues paper presents an overview of financial system developments in Jamaica. The financial system … government in the 1970s were sold back to the private sector. This paper also reviews developments in monetary policy in Jamaica …
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The paper suggests steps to improve the efficiency of the foreign exchange market in Jamaica, and to promote its … development. The financial system in Jamaica has undergone significant improvements. The most pressing problem continues to be … the economic indices of Jamaica are also presented in the paper …
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes Jamaica’s experience of low growth despite consistently high investment rates. It … suggests that the link between public debt and productivity is part of the answer to the puzzle. The paper considers Jamaica … Jamaica, and presents a newly constructed dataset that documents Jamaica’s notable market access to long-maturity, fixed …
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Economic outcomes in Jamaica have fallen short of the authorities’ objectives in recent years. As the government looks … unanticipated developments can affect economic outcomes. First, it examines the impact on Jamaica’s economy of external economic …
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