Word: capita
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...someone else will,' the arms merchants and their government spokesmen are turning the world into a vast armed camp." The long line of weapons that helped seal Sadat's friendship with the U.S. were paraded past his grandstand through the dusty streets of an impoverished country where the per capita income is $460, and 42% of the budget is spent on the military...
...capita income of Egypt's 43 million people has remained stable at around $420 a year. With the peace treaty, Egypt lost economic aid from 16 Arab countries, including $2 billion a year from Saudi Arabia. On the other hand, it earned $2.5 billion on oil sales last year, much of it from fields in the Sinai returned by Israel; Egyptian workers in other Arab countries bring home about $2.7 billion a year; and foreign investments since 1979 have totaled $550 million. On the balance sheet alone, the Egyptian Establishment is likely to support Mubarak in his continuation of Sadat...
Price and Belize will have their problems. The substandard economy depends on exports of sugar cane, bananas and citrus fruits, but only 15% of the arable land is cultivated. There is little industry. Per capita income is only $1,038 a year, and Belize stands to lose the $8 million in aid it received last year from Britain. To help get Belize on its feet, London did make a parting grant of $22 million. In addition, Belize's independent status will make it eligible for aid from the United Nations (it became a member last week by a vote...
...from 20% in 1980). The unemployment rate is 12%, strikes have broken out, and consumer goods are gradually disappearing from store shelves. In late July, the government was unable to make payments on the $2.6 billion it owes to more than 130 international banks-a hefty $1,180 per capita debt in a land of 2.2 million. A month later the nation stopped paying even the $30 million monthly interest on those loans. Costa Rica is flat broke...
...capita use of energy in the U.S. has dropped by more than 12% since 1978, and in West Germany it has decreased 9%. Says André Michel, an oil trader for the Swiss-based Albaco Oil Co.: "It has taken consumers a long time to respond to high prices. But things have finally begun to change. If it had happened sooner, the price of a barrel of crude today would be $15 and not more than...