--- Leslilake1 at aol.com wrote:
> At the same time, the World Bank and its cousin, the Asian Development
> Bank, gave generous loans to Vietnam to plant huge amounts of low-quality
> robusta coffee - in line with international lending institutions'
> mandate to stimulate low-cost production and end market
> inefficiencies.
I don't think this is necessarily true -- there's certainly nothing low-quality about Vietnamese coffee. It's absolutely delicious.
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