Jamaica's Evolving Relationship with the IMF / Progress in Mathematics (PDF)

"'There and Back Again' by Nelson and Clarke

Explores the IMF Jamaica relationship, from 2010 traversing the ebb and flow within Jamaica's socio-political economy, as well as the discourse, practice and governance of both.

Bridging the political divide, Vision 2030, engenders dimensions of ownership, multipartite partnership, and modalities of social governance within the IMF programme.

Completing the IMF lending relationship, Covid-19- as a fly in the proverbial ointment, leaves the jury out, on Jamaica going 'Back again'"

- Lloyd George Waller, Ph.D., Waikato, New Zealand.

This book explores the IMF: Jamaica, relationship since 2010, examining Jamaica's high debt and inability to access financial support amidst international capital market restrictions, contextualizing harsh socio-economic realities. With Jamaica's second return to the IMF, actor networks of governance amidst political and socio-economic efforts to re-engender a relationship are foregrounded, with a "new' IMF. Credibility is demonstrated and restored, furthering the success of the 2013 Extended Fund Facility and exit to a Precautionary Stand-By Arrangement in 2016. Clarke and Nelson reveal lessons learned, discussing Jamaica's economic prognosis and the IMF relationship under the shadow of the COVID pandemic.

Christine Clarke is Lecturer in Public Policy, Development Economics, and Finance and Development at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She serves on the Board of the Bank of Jamaica, Jamaica's central bank, and has worked at the Planning Institute of Jamaica in various capacities, from Economic Advisor to the Director-General to the Director of Economic Planning and Research. She earned her PhD in Public Finance from Rice University, USA.

Carol Nelson is Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Her first book, Social Partnership and Governance Under Crises captures the development of network relations in furthering governance of the public sector under crisis conditions in the Jamaican context. She holds an MSc in International Policy Analysis from Bath University, a PhD in Government as well as a Professional Certificate in Strategic Climate Change Adaptation.