Word: capita
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...likewise false that I did "not account for fluctuating factors like poverty levels and police techniques." Among the many factors I included in the analysis were poverty, income, unemployment, arrest and conviction rates, the number of police officers and police expenditures per capita, as well as the impact that the prevention of less serious crimes has on more serious ones. JOHN R. LOTT JR. John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow University of Chicago Chicago
Sievers said there is much more research that needs to be done in Africa and around the world. "In the last couple of years we've seen African economies turn from negative per capita growth to positive per capita growth rates," Sievers said. "We want to know what we can do to solidify and accelerate that process...
Things are good in Dalton. Per capita income is among the highest in the state at $24,773, and Zack Norville's warehouse manager, Travis Burns, drives a Jaguar, for crying out loud...
...water? The truth is that the sheer depth of Japan's crisis is beyond a simple menu of decisive action. Although some Tokyo policymakers may recognize that, much of the country is in denial. That's understandable, since the Japanese still enjoy one of the world's highest per-capita incomes. Moreover, this is an economy that since the 1980s has been heralded as a global model of success. This is the very system that allowed Japan to climb to greatness out of the ruins of World War II. It was supposed to be fail-safe...
Indonesia's economy has taken a hard fall, and no level of society has escaped the pain. The population of more than 200 million people has seen per capita income drop from $1,200 to $300 almost overnight. Tinted-glass towers in the business district of what was last year one of Asia's hottest cities for investors now stand virtually empty. Corporations have no way of repaying the $70 billion they borrowed from foreign banks, and much business has simply ceased. At the other end of the economic scale, poor households have no way of paying the escalating prices...