Mia Mottley

Exactly.

But countries like my own have been said, oh, you're middle income, you don't need money from us.

So we effectively don't get any aid from the USA or from Britain or whatever, other than part of a regional study or a regional study.

thing that is done.

And that's one of the things that we've been arguing, and I'll come to that in a bit, because that's at the core of a lot of the development issues, that we are asked to be able to access capital from the official financial institution, international financial institutions, on the basis of historic GDP per capita.

which really doesn't, I tell people that is like taking my blood pressure two years ago to determine if I'm going to have a stroke today.

It's completely irrelevant.

You understand?

That's a great analogy.

So that what matters, because in 72 hours, a hurricane can hit me.

Yeah.

And I can have wipeout risk.

Now, a hurricane can hit in Florida.

You don't have wipeout risk.

A hurricane hits in the Bahamas or Dominica,

It's gone.

And instead of dealing with qualitative issues in education, you're now dealing with basic access to schools again.

So we make the point that

The North Atlantic countries, for whatever reason, had the Caribbean and a lot of the other small island developing states in the Pacific, et cetera, in a certain prism.

This is how they view you.