investment in some new kind of agriculture or industry in the countryside? is it the blockade?<<
In response, Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: >The only reason you are asking this question is because you haven't bothered to look for the abundant Cuban economy data and reports such as hose by numerous UN agencies and research centers and instead swallow whole those pro neo-lib articles Ulhas regularly posts in his ongoing campaign of vilification of Cuba. <
how do you know that I "swallow" _anything_ whole? or that I haven't bothered to look at the data? of course you don't know that at all. You presume.
> Of course there has been investment in agriculture. Forced to abandon chemical fertilizer based crops it switched to organic based agriculture through new land management and he introduction of urban crops.For this UN's FAO recently mentioned Cuba as a world example. <
this isn't relevant to the question I asked, especially in the context of the article. The investment you refer to doesn't create the jobs that are needed (according to the article).
> As for industry, Cuba is also extremely well known for its very advanced bio-tech industry which in contrast to most of well VC funded US bio-tech, it does offers already a variety of vaccines and heart drugs to 35 different countries. <
this isn't relevant to the question I asked, especially in the context of the article. The investment you refer to doesn't create the jobs that are needed (according to the article).
> It is important ,especially as an economist, not to be dazzled and confused by gizmo/ widget counting of the kind Ulhas does for India, and realize that Cuba has been pursuing a strategy of development via the service sector :education, health services and tourism in addition to a vigorous fishing industry. Cuba exports hundreds of medical doctors to Brazil,Venezuela and Africa and trains many foreign students in the field.Also her international centers for rehab medical programs and plastic surgery have a large international market, etc, <
this isn't relevant to the question I asked, especially in the context of the article. The investment you refer to doesn't create the jobs that are needed (according to the article).
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