While watching Stephanie Black's film Life and Debt, I was not expecting to see the sad truth behind a third world nation. I never have given attention to the outside world. Living in Canada with many privileges, gave me enough ignorance to forget about the less privileged. What worried me more was the fact that they were in a debt loop by the hands of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Jamaica was a developing country but lacks the strength to stand by itself. Looking at Jamaica, I was astonished to see the poverty and lack of recourses. They have many issues as a country. The film explains how this occurs over time and all of it begins at the IMF. The textbook states that the reason the IMF exists is to help rebuild Europe from the