If you go any exotic place in what formerly was known as the developing world, you should be aware of what goes on behind the perimeter fence of your palm-fringed hideaway.

Life and Debt courageously takes head on the question of the real price paid by the Jamaican economy for membership of the club created by such institutions as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

In the 1970s, Jamaica was obliged to seek money from the IMF. The price to be paid involved opening the island up to the world economy. This has in practice meant, more tourists, but also more sweatshop-style industries. Under the pressure of competition with American imports, Jamaican agriculture has collapsed. For Jamaicans, the consequences of globalisation have been neither easy nor attractive. A well-argued, angry film.