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...ceased payment on its $2 billion debt to foreign Danks and international organizations, a move almost unnoticed during the Argentine debt crisis. Capital flight in the past two years alone has been estimated at $1 billion. Although Costa Rica is substantially better off (it receives more U.S. aid per capita than any other country except Israel), it can barely meet the interest payments on its $4 billion foreign debt...
...Liberal Party. "After a month, your wife begins to ask when he is leaving. The second month, you ask him directly what his plans are." Nor is any foreign military presence likely to be popular in a country in which barely half the population is fully employed and per capita income is only $600 a year. Although in the present fiscal year the U.S. is committed to sending Honduras $168 million in economic aid, vs. only $78 million in military aid, the Suazo government would like to receive even more compensation for its support. "We have wonderful relations with...
Economic optimists note also that although Israel may have the world's highest per capita foreign debt ($5,350, compared with $1,540 for Argentina), only $5.6 billion of the $22.5 billion total has been borrowed from commercial banks. The remainder is owed to more forgiving lenders: the U.S. and Jewish benefactors around the world...
...largely because governments are constantly under pressure from farm lobbies not to cut back. Because Britain's agricultural system is so limited, the country was receiving fewer subsidies than other member states. As a result, Britain, one of the Community's poorest members in terms of per capita income, was contributing more to the $21.3 billion budget than any other nation except West Germany. Each member's contribution is based mainly on the country's receipts from the value-added tax, a type of sales tax. Thatcher argued that Britain paid 21% of the Community...
...author of the report, M. Harvey Brenner of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, linked the sharp rise in unem ployment during the 1973-74 recession to a subsequent 2.8% rise hi deaths from heart attacks. Brenner found that a 3% decline in per capita income during the recession later caused 46,000 deaths from heart disease. Indeed, increased business failures were responsible for even more heart-disease fatalities - 95,680, to be exact...