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Latin American Economy & Business - March 2016 (ISSN 1741-7430)
Jamaica: Sticking with the program
The newly-elected Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) government under Prime Minister Andrew Holness may find it hard to meet its pledge to create about 200,000 new jobs over the next five-to-seven years. In the meantime, the government will continue to follow the economic reform program that was agreed with the IMF as a part of the four-year Extended Fund Facility initiated in May 2013.
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