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Any Client Filer that does not meet the Expenditure Threshold using the Full Year Calculation must then determine whether it has met the Expenditure Threshold using the Special Period Calculation, and if it has, then the Client Filer is deemed to have met the statutory Expenditure Threshold.
Archibald Ritter, Cuba’s Economy During the Special Period, 1990–2010, in 1 CUBA: PEOPLE, CULTURE, HISTORY 232 (Alan West-Durán ed., 2011) (“In a speech in 1997, President Fidel Castro lamented the pro-market policy moves and implied that they were temporary only–possibly only for the duration of the ‘Special Period.’”); see also CUBA IN THE SPECIAL PERIOD: CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY IN THE 1990S (Ariana Hernandez-Reguant ed., 2009).
In 1999, real wages in Cuba were just 60% of their 1989 level (Mesa-Lago 2003, 112), and the country was still five years away from a full recovery; however, the worst of the Special Period was over (Núñez Sarmiento 2010).
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The Special Period in Time of Peace spurred a number of economic reforms including increased foreign direct investment opportunities and individual entrepreneurship, eventually stabilizing the economy.The turn of the century brought a new preferential trade agreement with Venezuela in what was popularly referred to as the doctors for oil program.