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...Dairy products traditionally have not been an important part of the Chinese diet. But government and industry promotional efforts have boosted consumption. The average annual per capita milk consumption of Chinese has grown from just 2 kg (4.4 pounds) in 1980 to 22 kg (48.5 pounds...
...long the indri itself will stay with us. Madagascar's native plants and animals evolved in isolation for some 80 million years; as a result, the 587,000-sq-km country, which sits just off the coast of southeastern Africa, has perhaps the highest level of biodiversity per capita in the world. It's what conservationists call a "hotspot" - one of about 25 places on Earth that have suffered massive habitat loss and account for less than 2% of the planet's land surface, but are home to about half the world's plant species and a third of vertebrate...
...advent of the credit crunch over a year ago. In that way, the $700 billion bailout works just like any social security or welfare scheme, by passing costs on to the shoulders of every American taxpayer. This bailout adds roughly $2,000 to the U.S. national debt per capita, rather than letting markets correct household prices and take down more flagship American investment banks. So today is just like...
...what we’ve been talking about is really the use of the strategic payout.” Harvard’s $36.9 billion endowment is the largest in higher education, though it trails Princeton’s $16 billion endowment on a per-capita basis. Under increasing scrutiny, Harvard and other wealthy universities have defended their sub-five percent payout rates as necessary to build a cushion against periods of financial downturn. Several of Harvard’s schools are heavily dependent on endowment money to fund their operating budgets. While some Harvard schools, like the School...
...fact, it was once Indonesia that showed Asia the way out of the poorhouse. In 1980, when Deng Xiaoping was first nudging China toward the free market, Indonesia's per capita GDP was more than double China's. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Indonesia's fast-growing manufacturing sector was a magnet for foreign investment, and rural development schemes were so successful that the nation became self-sufficient in rice for the first time. The government even had ambitions to build commercial jets and cars. But since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Indonesia has been virtually marching in place...