Re: Cuba's march to nowhere


"Dan Christensen" <dchris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> PL wrote:
>> "Dan Christensen" <dchris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > >From the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization's website:
>> >
>> From the WFP website:
>>
>> Cuba is a low-income, food-deficit country
>>
>> http://www.wfp.org/country_brief/indexcountry.asp?country=192&region=4&section=9&sub_section=4
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>
> Check the date, Mr. Lobbyist. As of September 2004, Cuba was offically
> no longer on the LIFD list. (snip)

Was this a "critera 3 " thing?

Cuba still is a net importer of food.
http://www.fao.org/es/ess/compendium_2004/pdf/ESS_CUB.pdf

FAO's Low Income Food Deficit Countries are based on three criteria:
- First, a country should have a per capita
income below the "historical" ceiling used by the World Bank to determine
eligibility for IDA assistance and for
20-year IBRD terms, applied to countries included in World Bank categories I
and II. The historical ceiling of
per capita GNP for 2000, based on the World Bank Atlas method, is US$1,445,
the same level as in 1999. The
second criterion is based on the net (ie, gross imports less gross exports)
food trade position of a country
averaged over the preceding three years.
- Trade volumes for a broad basket of basic foodstuffs (cereals, roots and
tubers, pulses, oilseeds and oils other than tree crop oils, meat and dairy
products) are converted and aggregated
by the calorie content of individual commodities.
- Third, the self-exclusion criterion is applied when countries
that meet the above two criteria specifically request to be excluded from
the LIFDC category.

http://www.ecostat.unical.it/2003agtradeconf/Invited%20papers/Pingali%20and%20Stringer.PDF

PL


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