This Selected Issues paper analyzes Jamaica’s experience of low growth despite consistently high investment rates. It … suggests that the link between public debt and productivity is part of the answer to the puzzle. The paper considers Jamaica … Jamaica, and presents a newly constructed dataset that documents Jamaica’s notable market access to long-maturity, fixed …

Economic outcomes in Jamaica have fallen short of the authorities’ objectives in recent years. As the government looks … unanticipated developments can affect economic outcomes. First, it examines the impact on Jamaica’s economy of external economic …

expenditure to national income was negative in Barbados, Belize and Trinidad and Tobago, but positive for Guyana and Jamaica …