>>> aaslam at igc.org 05/02/01 12:22PM >>>
Greetings from a relatively new lbo-talk subscriber. Thought the following would interest participants in the recent exchange on this list, 'WB?No Thanks!'. Let's take as read all the usual caveats and qualifications regarding politics and civil rights in Fidel's Cuba and prospects post-Castro (alluded to in the last three grafs of this story).
Best wishes to all,
Abid Aslam
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CB: No, read it without the usual knee jerk caveats and qualifications regarding politics and civil rights in revolutionary Cuba.
Inter Press Service Finance: Learn from Cuba, says World Bank by Jim Lobe Washington, 30 Apr -- World Bank President James Wolfensohn Monday extolled the Communist government of President Fidel Castro for doing "a great job" in providing for the social welfare of the Cuban people.
His remarks followed Sunday's publication of the Bank's 2001 edition of 'World Development Indicators' (WDI), which showed Cuba as topping virtually all other poor countries in health and education statistics.
It also showed that Havana has actually improved its performance in both areas despite the continuation of the US trade embargo against it, and the end of Soviet aid and subsidies for the Caribbean island more than ten years ago.