The debate about the failings of the Jamaican economy has largely focused on productivity. The argument has been that our productivity is low and the task is to increase productivity. But, is low productivity the core issue?

The answer is ‘no’! The core issue for the Jamaican economy is that we remain a low value-added economy exporting largely raw materials and raw services. Because we are a low-tech economy, we are also a low-wage economy stuck in the middle-income trap for many decades. How to move out of this low value-added economy to one of greater economic complexity is the real issue within which the productivity

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