‘, explores, from 2010, Jamaica’s contemporary relationship with the International Monetary Fund, prefacing the context of high debt, the inability to access financial support amidst international capital market restrictions, contextualizing the harsh socio-economic realities. Jamaica’s second return to the IMF, foregrounds the networking of actors, governance and the political and socio-economic effort expended, to re-engender a relationship with a “new’ IMF. Credibility was restored, demonstrated by and leading to, the successful implementation of the 2013 Extended Fund Facility and subsequent exit, to a Precautionary Stand-By Arrangement in 2016. Clarke and Nelson signal from their analyses lessons learned, discussing the economic prognosis for Jamaica as well as their relationship with the IMF under the shadow of the COVID pandemic.weiterlesen