The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) on Tuesday (January 15) launched its groundbreaking Electronic Data Collection System (eDACS), which promises to revolutionize the way the agency collects and processes data....

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, says the Government is aware that advances in socio-economic conditions must be anchored to a foundation of macro-economic stability and economic growth....

Prime Minister the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has announced a number of economic initiatives that are scheduled to come on stream during 2013. In a national broadcast on Sunday...

While Jamaica has recorded slow economic growth since independence, the social development of its people has improved significantly. This was the consensus among panelists participating in a discussion on: ‘Understanding...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. A.J. Nicholson, says that as a small developing state, Jamaica requires increased production and exports, through new investments, to achieve...

Recommendations aimed at inducing short and medium term economic growth in Jamaica, have been included in a strategy developed within the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ). The document, a Growth...

Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Gladstone Hutchinson, says the economy must be transformed into a private sector-led one, if Vision 2030 or Jamaica's Fiscal Consolidation...

The Government will be strengthening economic diplomacy, in order to help steer the country out of the grip of the global financial crisis and lay a solid foundation for future...

Head of the Caribbean Development Bank's (CDB) Social Sector Division, Yvonne Moses Grant, says the prevailing economic crisis presents Caribbean countries with an opportunity for creative innovative solutions to deal...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, said that the Government's economic policies have the objective of growing the economy out of debt and positioning the country on...

Another of America's leading rating agencies, Moody's, has maintained Jamaica's B (stable) rating, in its latest update issued yesterday (February 23).Moody's says: "The outlook for all ratings is stable, reflecting...