Jamaica's $30 Billion Prison Question: What Are We Actually Buying?
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What Counts as Violence
A framework for seeing the forms of harm that homicide statistics cannot capture By Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher Opening It is six in the morning in Montego Bay and a woman is walking to catch a route taxi. She has already made three decisions before the sun is fully
The Distance Between Gordon House and the Shop Floor
Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher Seprod's decision to temporarily lay off 141 workers has been read as a verdict on Jamaica's new sugar tax. The truth is more complicated, and more useful, than that. There is a version of this story that begins with a number:
Is Jamaica Becoming Unlivable? The Numbers Behind a Growing National Anxiety
A country can look healthier on paper while its households feel the walls closing in. The distinction between macroeconomic stability and household economic security is where this story lives. Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher Ask a taxi driver in Half-Way Tree, a teacher in Mandeville, or a nurse coming
EduFocal Wants to Become Walstron. The Numbers Say the Company Isn't There Yet.
A Jamaican EdTech pioneer is asking shareholders to approve a new name, a wider mandate and open-ended share-issuance powers, all while its auditors flag material uncertainty about its ability to continue as a going concern. By Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher There is a particular kind of irony