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Caribbean & Central America - October 2014 (ISSN 1741-4458)
JAMAICA: Politics edging to the fore
In our July issue we looked in depth at the success Jamaica is having in implementing its International Monetary Fund (IMF)-invigilated reforms and how this was being achieved in part through (in the words of IMF chief Christine Lagarde) “a great innovation in ownership” of the reform programme. By this, Lagarde meant the creation of an inclusive Economic Program Oversight Committee to monitor the content and progress of reforms from the outside. Jamaica continues to make good progress, impressing both the IMF and ratings agencies such as Standard & Poor’s. But the People’s National Party (PNP) government led by Portia Simpson Miller has reached the halfway point of its five year term and electoral calculations must inevitably begin to move centre stage.
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