Jamaica was the subject of a glowing analysis last Friday in the Financial Times (FT), which described the country’s economic performance over the past 10 years as “arguably one of the most remarkable and radical but underappreciated turnaround stories in economic history”. The article, written by Robin Wigglesworth, editor of the FT’s financial blog Alphaville, basically focused on the just-concluded International Monetary Fund (IMF) virtual mission to Jamaica, conducted as...