Comment on ‘The Jamaican Economy since Independence’ by the Jamaica Responsibility Project
My first observation is that there is very little that is new in this document, either by way of diagnosis or of prescription. It attributes Jamaica’s economic problems principally to the effects of violence, the debt burden and an inadequate education system; which is hardly a discovery. Its policy proposals consist mostly of broad generalizations and, when specifics are mentioned, these are vague and highly tentative.
