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...step is into uncharted territory. Now, with the military component reduced to a mere 78 personnel, and a reborn police force under the close watch of foreign advisers, the mission's youthful bureaucrats are taking charge of battered economic and development institutions. The economy has gone steadily backward: per-capita income has fallen 50% since independence in 1978. The ethnic tensions and brutality of 1998-2003 masked a chronic illness in Solomon Islands, for which there is no off-the-shelf cure. "Our leaders have not lived up to the expectations of the people that have put them into power...
...these places so safe? No, not only because they are lacking in sites particularly attractive to terrorists. These five states also have the highest per capita spending allocation for domestic security funds from the Department of Homeland Security. And according to a recent report in the New York Times, some of these places have so much money they don’t know what to do with...
WILLIAM BAUMOL: There is a very clear possibility that the common man and woman's view is right: that [economic] catch-up in China may lead to a lower level and rate of growth of GDP per capita in the U.S. I am not advocating tariffs. We are so much richer than China that it may be desirable for us to make a modest sacrifice to raise their standards of living. But better still is for us to take measures that will be advantageous both to China and to us. It is obscene for us to ignore the effects...
...herself get slowed down by what other people might consider obstacles. So it was only natural that she would take the new Braille system to the place where it was most needed: Tibet. Although widely regarded as a mountain paradise, Tibet has twice as much blindness per capita as the global average, due to high altitude and sun exposure. (The proportion of sightless Tibetans is 1 in 70.) Treatment there has long been hampered by the belief that blindness is a punishment for misdeeds in a previous life. And so, beginning in 1997, Tenberken traveled the mountain country on horseback...
...domestic product (GDP) has on average grown 3.4% annually compared with 6.5% for all of East Asia's developing countries. More than half of the population still lives on $2 a day or less. In recent years, the plight of many has worsened. Morgan Stanley estimates that GDP per capita has decreased by 2.5% annually over the past eight years. While the economies in other populous developing countries such as India and China roar ahead, crucial foreign investors continue to shun Indonesia due to the threat of terrorism, rampant corruption (a survey conducted last year by Berlin-based watchdog Transparency...