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Textile production is central to the nation's economy although the country has untapped resources of timber and national gas. Bangladesh received more than $1.1 billion in foreign aid last year, and is one of the poorest nations in the world, with an annual per capita income of less than...
...political turmoil currently gripping Bangladesh is the latest blow to a country already staggering under huge social and economic problems. Covering an area the size of Wisconsin, Bangladesh has 94 million people, nearly half of them under 16 years old. Desperately poor (per capita income: $123), the country has received more than $10 billion in aid over the past decade, including a total of $1.2 billion this year from Japan, the U.S. and the World Bank...
Even more urgent for Mubarak is the problem of the Egyptian economy. Most of Egypt's 45 million people live in poverty. The annual per capita income of about $500 cannot keep pace with population growth, currently 3% a year. All Egyptians benefit from government price subsidies on food and other basic commodities. But these subsidies are strangling the economy because they consume 31% of the national budget. Any effort to reform the subsidy program is a risky business, as Sadat learned during the 1977 food riots...
...impact upon various municipal services also various from very negligible to severe cuts, depending upon a community's per capita wealth and previous level of taxation...
...wife are too profane for the small screen. Little wonder, then, that well-to-do Saudis snap up VCRs and cassettes, especially of R-and X-rated fare. VCRS and cassettes are banned in Iran, but thousands have been smuggled in by wealthy Iranians. In Egypt, where the per capita income is $500, the privileged few are eagerly buying VCRs for up to $2,500. The demand for cassettes is so extensive that some supermarkets in Cairo have set up video lending libraries, while video shops are becoming as common as bazaars...