IMF Says to Take Action Now!

December 1, 2021

The International Monetary Fund,IMF, in a statement have outlined several possible issues that may affect Jamaica’s future growth and development if action isn’t taken now. In order to address these issues, the IMF suggested a tightening of the Bank of Jamaica, BOJ, policy rates, strengthening of supervision for financial conglomerates and also gave a recommendation to the government to resist demands to increase wages for public sector workers and so on. Well the IMF Mission Chief for Jamaica, Bas Bakker is here to discuss.

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The Cast

Bas Bakker

IMF Mission Chief for Jamaica

Dwayne Taylor

Wealth Advisor at Ideal Portfolio Services

Jodian Aris

Research and Strategy Analyst at Sagicor Investments

Julian Morrison

Julian Morrison

Investment Analyst, PROVEN Wealth

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