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Did IMF allow Jamaica to make a great escape?
BY KEITH COLLISTER
Sunday, March 30, 2014
IN an article nearly two weeks ago titled "Jamaica's great escape", Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth likened Jamaica's performance under the IMF agreement as akin "to the greatest escape since Steve McQueen tunnelled his way out of a fictional World War Two prison camp".
Wigglesworth, who after a visit to the country had written a somewhat bearish article on Jamaica at the end of last year, started his piece by
noting, "Few countries have a history with the International Monetary Fund as long and inglorious as Jamaica, but is the Caribbean's perennial basketcase finally getting its act together? It would appear so.
BY KEITH COLLISTER
Sunday, March 30, 2014
IN an article nearly two weeks ago titled "Jamaica's great escape", Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth likened Jamaica's performance under the IMF agreement as akin "to the greatest escape since Steve McQueen tunnelled his way out of a fictional World War Two prison camp".
Wigglesworth, who after a visit to the country had written a somewhat bearish article on Jamaica at the end of last year, started his piece by
noting, "Few countries have a history with the International Monetary Fund as long and inglorious as Jamaica, but is the Caribbean's perennial basketcase finally getting its act together? It would appear so.
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