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...supply of houses and apartments is not adequate. The U.S. has long taken pride in being the best-housed nation in the world, but today-despite its riches and technological power-it has slipped behind the pace of almost every big country in Western Europe in construction per capita (see chart following page). Even the U.S.S.R. puts up more housing than the U.S., though the Soviets' prefabricated apartments are so cramped and shoddy that most would be unrentable to middle-class Americans. George Romney, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, calculates that new housing in the past four...
...example, Western economists tend to assume that the primary objective of poor countries is and should be the maximization of per capita income. This economic index has meaning only in the context of a market economy and implies an acceptance of the status quo income distribution. Egalitarian goals are introduced at best on an ad hoc basis, and the human costs of rapid economic growth-the fracture of community, for example-are seldom considered. A companion objective typically assumed for poor countries, that of "political development." aims at little more than convergence with western political system. Thus, the conventional confines...
Persuasive Phrase. To a great extent, Park has earned the support that he enjoys. Since 1961, the country has enjoyed an unprecedented economic boom, with per-capita income rising from $85.20 to $134 in 1968. In addition, Park's firm stance in the face of threats from the hard-line Communist regime north of the 38th parallel has won popularity for his regime in security-conscious South Korea. The opposition campaigned on a slogan of "Freedom v. Dictatorship." In the end, however, voters were moved by the government's catch phrase: "A vote against Park is a vote...
...first necessary to reject even the possibility of a successful development, measured in terms of the people of a country, by American investment. It is possible, I will admit, that after continuous massive doses of foreign aid, as in Formosa, an underdeveloped country can experience an increase in per capita income...
...population of 17 million and an area roughly the same as Tennessee's, East Germany has a gross national product of $31.7 billion. Cameras from the Pentacon works at Dresden compete with Leicas from West Germany. TV sets from East Berlin are sold in the Federal Republic. Per capita ownership of TV sets is even higher in East Germany (211 per 1,000) than in West Germany...