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...Indian innovators. Not only should India’s government more actively facilitate such accessible transport, but also the rest of the world should applaud Tata’s step in a positive direction.Economics professor Lawrence H. Summers has said that current levels of gross domestic product per capita in India—essentially, standards of living—are roughly equivalent to those in America pre-Civil War. As such, the closest automobile comparison to the Nano would be the Ford Model T. The Model T first rolled off the assembly line in 1908, its production reaching 15 million...
...Funding for the Princeton plan has not yet been determined, as many proposed projects have not even been zoned, Cliatt said. Still, Princeton has a deep bankroll from which to draw—its nearly $16 billion endowment is the largest in higher education on a per-capita basis. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...
...Consider Qiu Haiyan, 22, from Henan, a province in central China with an average per capita income of $1,100 per year. She first found her way here working on a barge that carries bricks up the river that flows past our house. Qiu has the build of an Olympic weight lifter, with thick, powerful legs, and she and other work-gang members would offload the bricks on a wide wooden plank attached to a rope that they would sling across their shoulders. The subcontractor who built our development estimates he used about 70,000 bricks at Emerald Riverside...
...number of households with assets of $1 million or more swelled by 14% in 2006 to 9.6 million, while last year's Forbes Rich List included a record 946 billionaires. Figuring out ways to help the rich stay that way is a lucrative business. Based on GDP per capita, 11 of the world's 20 richest countries are tax havens, with Luxembourg holding the top spot...
...Harvard’s $34.9 billion endowment is the largest in the country, though it trails Princeton on a per-capita basis...