[lbo-talk] Re: Kerala and Cuba

[kjkhoo at softhome.net]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>Cubans living abroad are said to send $ 800 million to $ 1 billion 
>annually to their homeland.
>
>Cuba's GDP: $ 18.6 billion.

So roughly 4-5% of est GDP. Have no idea what it is in Kerala. In the 
Philippines, it's estimated at 8%. Within Caribbean, if the above 
figures are good, Cuba would be much below Dom Rep, Jamaica, 
Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua (at 14% of GDP), but above Mexico, 
Panama, and broadly comparable with Guatemala.

But then, someone could say that the other places are free to export 
their workers, and if the same were true of Cuba, it might climb to 
comparable levels as Nicaragua? Be pretty damning then, if true.

kjk