[lbo-talk] Re: Kerala and Cuba

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>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

One of the necessary ingredients of development of Europe was the 
ability to dump its surplus population on the rest of the world:

*****   ...One of the most stupendous achievements of 19th-century 
classical liberalism was the right of freedom of movement. As one 
indication, between 1840 and the early decades of the 20th century 
almost 60 million people emigrated from Europe to other parts of the 
world. Eighteen million came from Great Britain and Ireland; 10 
million from Italy; 9.2 million from European Russia; 5.2 million 
from Austria-Hungary; 4.9 million from Germany; 4.7 million from 
Spain; 1.8 million from Portugal; 1.2 million from Sweden; 850,000 
from Norway; 640,000 from Poland; 520,000 from France; and 390,000 
from Denmark....

<http://www.fff.org/freedom/0500h.asp>   *****

Today, poor nations, trying to catch up in the age of tight 
immigration control, can't do the same -- one of the reasons why 
development is difficult today.
-- 
Yoshie

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