Caribbean & Central America - October 2016 (ISSN 1741-4458)

*** IMF COMPLETES JAMAICA REVIEW. On 16 September, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed its 13^th review of Jamaica’s economic performance under the four-year US$932.3m extended fund facility (EFF). The IMF reported that Jamaica had met “all quantitative performance criteria for end-June 2016”. It added that “domestic confidence indicators are at an all-time high”. It is forecasting GDP growth of 1% for fiscal year 2015/16 and 1.7% for FY16/17.

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