The Significance of Jamaica’s 0.3% Growth

The Economic Growth Council continues to point to improvements in the country’s economy, but has magnified areas which have hampered their efforts in achieving the 5 in 4 projection, among the retardants inefficiency within the public sector and lack of accountability, all this after the planning institute of Jamaica yesterday reported marginal quarterly growth of 0.3 percent.

We put into perspective what it all means this evening, with Senator Aubyn Hill, Executive Director Economic Growth Council and Donovan Wignall, President the MSME Alliance.

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