paul o'neill on helping the poor

Daniel Davies d_squared_2002 at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jul 18 05:02:33 PDT 2001


--- 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.

dd

===== ... in countries which do not enjoy Mediterranean sunshine idleness is more difficult, and a great public propaganda will be required to inaugurate it. -- Bertrand Russell

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