In July 2021, executives of Jamaica Broilers Group Limited (JBG), a vertically integrated poultry business headquartered in Jamaica with a subsidiary in Haiti (Haiti Broilers S.A.), were monitoring the social and political fallout from the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise. Haiti Broilers had already reduced staff and operations in 2019 because of ongoing civil unrest. With the presidential assassination in 2021, JBG expected further .....more

Teaching note for product W42891.

In 2012, the Jamaican economy was in a crisis. It had an estimated debt-to–gross domestic product ratio of 147 per cent. To alleviate the crisis, the Jamaican government signed both an extended fund facility for US$948 million, in 2013, and a precautionary stand-by arrangement for US$1.64 billion, in 2016, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). As a condition of the IMF loan, the Jamaican government agreed to an economic reform agenda with requirements .....more

Teaching note for product W33640.