How Jamaica turned its debts around

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How Jamaica turned its debts around

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In the final episode of a four-part series on sovereign bankruptcy, the FT's Robin Wigglesworth tells the story of Jamaica's fiscal turnaround, which took a punitive austerity programme and a dose of good luck. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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