TY - BOOK ID - 84544391 TI - Jamaica : Selected Issues. AU - International Monetary Fund. AU - International Monetary Fund PY - 2006 SN - 1462342329 1452746427 128088908X 9786613730398 1451882610 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Foreign Exchange KW - Inflation KW - Money and Monetary Policy KW - Public Finance KW - Production and Operations Management KW - Debt KW - Debt Management KW - Sovereign Debt KW - Price Level KW - Deflation KW - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures KW - Other Public Investment and Capital Stock KW - Monetary Systems KW - Standards KW - Regimes KW - Government and the Monetary System KW - Payment Systems KW - Macroeconomics: Production KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Macroeconomics KW - Currency KW - Foreign exchange KW - Monetary economics KW - Finance KW - Public debt KW - Exchange rates KW - Government debt management KW - Currencies KW - Prices KW - Public financial management (PFM) KW - Money KW - Debts, Public KW - Industrial productivity KW - Jamaica UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84544391 AB - 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’s debt management strategy and its optimal debt structure. It also reviews the institutional framework for debt management in Jamaica, and presents a newly constructed dataset that documents Jamaica’s notable market access to long-maturity, fixed interest rate, and domestic currency bond placements. ER -