An Overview of the Jamaican Economy in the ...

adjustment Alcoa amount outstanding balance of payments Bank of Jamaica banking system bauxite bauxite and alumina capital inflows CARICOM ceiling cent respectively Central Government Change Clarendon Alumina Productions commercial banks commodities Consumer Price Index corresponding period cumulative period January demand management policies developments domestic economic activity end of September exchange rate depreciated External Debt financing fiscal Fuels gals Government Guaranteed imports improvement interest rates Internal Jamaican dollar Jan.-Sept January to September June labour market loans and advances long dry tons mainly manufacturing sector million months of 1985 movements nine months operations output levels overall deficit period of 1984 petroleum products price increases public sector quarter of 1985 rate of inflation Raw Materials real sector reduced reflected reserve ratios resulted review period savings deposits Sept September 1985 compared September 1985 period short tons sugar third quarter thousand tons tight demand management tonnes Treasury Bills U.S. dollar U.S. economic