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Jamaica Development Chronicle
The definitive journalistic record of Jamaica’s modern development journey, from the launch of Vision 2030 in 2009 to the present day.
The conventional wisdom in Caribbean political economy has long held that fiscal frameworks unravel when elections approach: the primary surplus…
There is a number that Jamaican finance ministers had been pursuing through five years of primary surpluses and painful fiscal…
The summer of 2018 arrived in Jamaica with a quality that was new — not just the warmth and the…
The Budget That Held the Line: Jamaica’s 2018-19 Fiscal Plan Kept the Surplus and Added Room to Grow
When Finance Minister Audley Shaw rose in the House of Representatives in April 2018 to present Budget 2018–19, the question…
Something shifted in Jamaica’s economy in the opening months of 2018, and the data that emerged through the quarter made…
Jamaica closed 2017 with its seventh consecutive tourism record, a primary surplus maintained well above programme targets, and a debt-to-GDP…
In early September 2017, Jamaica watched Hurricane Irma — one of the most powerful Atlantic storms ever recorded — pass…
The first full quarter of life after Jamaica’s IMF Extended Fund Facility posed the question that economists had long debated:…
In May 2017, Jamaica completed the sixteen-quarter IMF Extended Fund Facility that had governed its economic life since 2013 —…
Jamaica closed 2016 with GDP growth of approximately 1.4 per cent — the island’s strongest annual expansion since before the…
As Jamaica’s IMF Extended Fund Facility moved into its penultimate quarterly review, the economy it had reshaped was performing at…
When Finance Minister Audley Shaw rose in parliament to present Jamaica’s Budget 2016-17, the fiscal community was watching for signs…
On the night of February 25, 2016, Jamaica’s voters delivered the closest general election result in the island’s modern history,…
Jamaica closed 2015 with GDP growth confirmed at approximately 0.9 per cent — the third consecutive year of expansion since…
Jamaica’s peak summer season delivered another record quarter for hotel arrivals in 2015, offering the clearest evidence yet that the…