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...What happens now? Most likely, nothing. With a per-capita gdp of just $478, East Timor remains one of the world's poorest nations, and wants to keep friendly ties with Indonesia, its largest trading partner. East Timor President Xanana Gusm?o has rejected CAVR's call for reparations and a war-crimes tribunal, saying he wants South African-style truth and reconciliation rather than punishment. "It's not so important to look at the figures [in the study]," he said. "It is important to look at the lessons...
...OPEC did in November 1973, when they placed the U.S. and Holland under oil embargo for siding with Israel. Prices skyrocketed; Saudi Arabia enjoyed a couple of years of fat profits. Then, the U.S. and other Western countries improved their economies, and adjusted to new prices, while per capita income in Saudi Arabia has sharply dropped since. A country that is prepared to wield energy weapons must know that it is going to lose in the long run. History gives an unequivocal answer to where Russia will slide, should it embark on this road...
...built blocks. Singapore's cultural life - a phrase that was once oxymoronic - is now at least as vibrant as those of other cities in Southeast Asia, with a sparkling new performing-arts center and some of the best restaurants in the world. After decades of strong economic growth, per-capita income last year was $24,220, about the same as Italy. As they trip around Asia, popping off to Bali or Perth for the weekend while dressed in Prada and Gucci, wealthier Singaporeans could be forgiven for pitying their former European masters, whose day in the sun - they will sometimes...
...least 4,000 citizens have been imprisoned on political charges. Under a law passed in 1998, any word or action interpreted as an offense against the President can be punished by up to five years in jail. Lukashenko's writ is enforced by the highest number of police per capita in Europe, and his government has cracked down hard on human-rights and democracy organizations that criticize him. The U.S. and Europe have repeatedly condemned Belarus as an outpost of tyranny. Even at the forgotten edge of the Continent, a land where one man ruthlessly controls all state institutions...
...terms of GDP per capita, France is in the bottom half of Western European economies. According to official U.S. and European economic statistics, out of 50 American states, France’s GDP per capita outperformed only Arkansas, Montana, West Virginia, and Mississippi in 2001. A recent Swedish report calculated that if the U.S. economy had been frozen in 2000, it would take France an extra 15 years of growth to catch up to the American standard...