United Nations Jamaica and University of the West Indies partner to establish Jamaican Economy Panel (JEP)

Each round of a JEP Discussion will provide a monthly discussion on a key economic topic.

The JEP is an initiative of the United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office (UNRCO) and the Department of Economics at The University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona.

The experts are selected by the JEP team and bring together academia, the private sector and international institutions. All panelists, resident and abroad, either work in Jamaica or on issues relevant to the Jamaican economy. The Jamaica panellists are asked to respond to a limited number of questions on a regular basis (2 or 3 questions, on a monthly basis) on a different topic each time.

The JEP aims to mainstream the economic discussions and questions which economists and other public policy experts grapple with every day. It will bring together some of the policy-related questions that economists and public policy experts are trained to address with the kinds of questions that people in the general population may have. The work of JEP is to facilitate a forum to position and give visibility to some of the issues that experts may want to address, while engaging the government and the public at large.

The inaugural JEP discussion centres the Jamaican economy in relation to its COVID-19 response and recovery.

For any information about the JEP, feel free to reach out to Olaf J. de Groot (olaf.degroot@un.org), Economist at the UNRCO.

A detailed description of the first JEP Discussion is available HERE.