Overcoming Productivity Challenges in Small Countries: Lessons from Jamaica

By Andre Haughton and Wendel Ivey

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303123300X
• ISBN13: 9783031233005
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"