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Jamaica: Review of agricultural sector support and taxation

Country highlights prepared under the FAO/IDB Cooperation

Year of publication 2014

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 92, p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The role of agriculture in the Jamaican economy is changing quickly as other sectors have grown and traditional agricultural exports have declined. The current review of the support policies and agricultural taxation by the Government of Jamaica offers an opportunity to reshape policy so that it better reflects the new needs and priorities of the agricultural sector. This report serves as a guide to the agricultural policy shifts that would be desirable in the context of the changing role of agr iculture. It focuses on the central question of how to create within the context of fiscal austerity an enabling framework for agriculture that results in a more competitive sector, with prospects for growth and poverty alleviation in the future. The three major studies underpinning this report are an Agricultural Sector Support Analysis, a Climate Change Report and an Agricultural Taxation Report. This report synthesizes and expands on the elements in these studies that are most relevant to the policy choices facing the government in the context of its tax reform initiative.

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