Overview
- Outlines how productivity challenges can be overcome in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
- Demonstrates an understanding of the factors that hamper productivity growth
- Identifies country-specific idiosyncrasies that have prevented Jamaica’s holistic development
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Productivity growth has been slowing down globally in recent years in light of heightened economic crises and geopolitical tensions. This book puts the issue of low productivity growth in small countries under a microscope, exploring Jamaica’s productivity challenges in its quest to achieve its United Nation Sustainable Developmental Goals. Overall, this book provides useful examples of handicaps that small countries face and proposes different approaches in finding plausible solutions to their overarching productivity challenges. This study provides useful lessons to other countries, as well, which would like to transition from developing to developed and to better the lives of their citizens.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Andre Haughton is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of the West Indies Mona with a research focus on international economics and applied macroeconomics. He is a former Senator in Jamaica and an International Monetary Fund Distinguished Academic Fellow who earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essex (UK).
Wendel Ivey is an Economist in the Research and Economic Programming Division at the Bank of Jamaica and formerly a Senior Research Analyst at the Jamaica Productivity Centre. He holds a MSc in Economics from the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus with a focus on Economic Development and International Economics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Overcoming Productivity Challenges in Small Countries
Book Subtitle: Lessons from Jamaica
Authors: Andre Haughton, Wendel Ivey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23301-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23300-5Published: 04 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23303-6Published: 05 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23301-2Published: 03 March 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 287
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 146 illustrations in colour