Financial Sector Reform in Jamaica During 1985-1992, Possible Lessons for the Caribbean /

This paper reviews the Jamaican experience with indirect instruments and contrasts this with the currency board type arrangements of the common currency area governed by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB). Reforms in Jamaica improved intermediation and banking efficiency, but a weak fiscal po...

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Main Author: Marston, Dewitt
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1995.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1995/090
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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