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Caribbean & Central America - May 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)
JAMAICA: Strong criticism of IMF programme
In April, the Jamaican government presented its 2011/12 budget, which was largely dictated by the fiscal-tightening demands of the current IMF programme. At the beginning of May, a paper published by the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) was strongly critical of the pro-cyclical nature of the IMF programme.
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