2025年1月13日 · By 2021, at an early stage of Jamaica’s economic recovery, the poverty rate stood at 16.7%, underlining the challenge of sustaining progress. These dramatic ups and …

2016年8月6日 · Jamaica has struggled with poverty, unemployment and crime for the past half century, but the nation has recently seen ambitious government economic policies bear fruit. …

2024年11月19日 · The share of Jamaicans living below the upper-middle income international poverty line of 6.85 USD per day is estimated to have dropped from 13.9 percent in 2021 to …

2021年7月17日 · We are now facing a deep crisis with the daily reality that one mile up or down the road exists pervasive and visceral poverty for many Jamaicans who are hungry and jobless.

2020年10月13日 · Latest poverty figures contained in the Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions show that the poverty rate in the Greater Kingston Metropolitan Area fell by 8.5 percentage …

2022年9月3日 · Due to the government’s generous and swift reaction to the pandemic, the state of poverty in Jamaica has continuously improved post-pandemic. In the year 2022, the …

2023年10月8日 · However, recent data from the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) shows that during the period of rising employment, more Jamaicans fell below the poverty line. Poverty …