Life and debt / a film by Stephanie Black ; produced and directed by Stephanie Black ; narration written by Jamaica Kincaid ; a Tuff Gong Pictures production ; a New Yorker Films release.

This documentary examines the effects of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund loans on the infrastructure Jamaica established in the wake of independence from the UK in 1962. Seven billion in debt (circa 2000), Jamaica has seen its agricultural industries laid to waste by the impossibilit...

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Main Author: Black, Stephanie (Motion picture director) (Director, Producer)
Contributors: Becker, Belinda (Narrator), Manley, Michael, 1924-1997 (Interviewee), Fischer, Stanley (Interviewee), Witter, Michael (Interviewee), Aristide, Jean-Bertrand (Interviewee), Kincaid, Jamaica
Corporate Contributor: Tuff Gong Pictures. (Film producer)
Format: Electronic Video
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : New Yorker Films, [2001]
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Genre/Form:Documentary films, Social problem films, Nonfiction films, Feature films, Film adaptations

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