Reports

Update on the Jamaican Economy

May 2012, Jake Johnston and Juan Antonio Montecino

Jamaica: Macroeconomic Policy, Debt and the IMF
May 2011, Jake Johnston and Juan Antonio Montecino

Op-Eds & Columns

The Jamaicanization of Europe
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, May 18, 2012
En Español

Jamaica, Greece and Putting the People Before the Creditors
Jake Johnston
Caribbean Journal, May 17, 2012

Jamaica Remains Buried Under a Mountain of Debt, Despite Restructuring
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, July 22, 2011

Press Releases

New Paper Finds Jamaican Economy to Be Held Back by Pro-Cyclical Conditions Demanded by IMF, Creditors
May 7, 2012

New Paper Finds Pro-Cyclical IMF Agreement and Debt Burden are Blocking Jamaica's Economic Progress
May 4, 2011

IMF Forecasts Global Slowdown, But Policies Remain Pro-cyclical In Many Countries
October 6, 2010

Latest Press Hits

• Simply a Roadmap
  Carribean News Now, May 13, 2013


• Jamaica's Decades of Debt Are Damaging Its Future
  Poverty Matters Blog (The Guardian), April 16, 2013


• Jamaica Aims to Restore Market Confidence
  Financial Times, February 22, 2013


• Chicago Tribune Editorial Calls Jamaica “Greece of the Western Hemisphere”
  Carribean Journal, January 08, 2013


• Jamaica’s Phillips: Country Must Put Debt on Downward Trajectory
  Caribbean Journal, May 26, 2012