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... JLP plans to target IDB for education Transformation money
published: Friday | November 24, 2006 <DIV class=KonaBody>
Earl Moxam, Senior Gleaner Writer
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), if it forms the next government, will be seeking funds from multilateral <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">lending</SPAN> agencies to assist in financing the country's Education Transformation programme.
Audley Shaw, the party's spokesman on <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">finance</SPAN> and planning, disclosed at a Gleaner Editors' Forum, on Wednesday that the JLP would be seeking as much as $20 billion per year, possibly from a consortium of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the World <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Bank</SPAN> to fund elements of the Transformation programme.
Already, preliminary discussions have been held with the targeted institutions, Mr. Shaw said, adding that the response had been positive.
Policy-based loans
"They say that <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">education</SPAN> is an area in which they are prepared to look at policy-based loans because they don't want any child left behind," he said.
The report of the Task Force on Educational Reform was tabled in Parliament, in December 2004. It recommended, among other things, that
... JLP plans to target IDB for education Transformation money
published: Friday | November 24, 2006 <DIV class=KonaBody>
Earl Moxam, Senior Gleaner Writer
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), if it forms the next government, will be seeking funds from multilateral <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">lending</SPAN> agencies to assist in financing the country's Education Transformation programme.
Audley Shaw, the party's spokesman on <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">finance</SPAN> and planning, disclosed at a Gleaner Editors' Forum, on Wednesday that the JLP would be seeking as much as $20 billion per year, possibly from a consortium of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the World <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Bank</SPAN> to fund elements of the Transformation programme.
Already, preliminary discussions have been held with the targeted institutions, Mr. Shaw said, adding that the response had been positive.
Policy-based loans
"They say that <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">education</SPAN> is an area in which they are prepared to look at policy-based loans because they don't want any child left behind," he said.
The report of the Task Force on Educational Reform was tabled in Parliament, in December 2004. It recommended, among other things, that
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