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...with bicycles and mini-tractors hauling everything from geese and green beans to bricks and black vinyl sofas. In Guanghan county, one of the first two regions in the country to abolish the Mao-inspired communes and lease land back to farmers % under the family contract system, the per capita income of agricultural workers is 646 yuan ($174), almost four times as high as it was before the reforms...
...most from consumers' withdrawal pangs, are making the biggest efforts to regain public trust. In January the National Live Stock and Meat Board launched a $30 million promotion campaign that it hopes will beef up sales that have been less than bullish since 1976. Back then, Americans' per capita consumption was 94 lbs., & in contrast to 80 lbs. last year...
Wittwer and his co-authors maintain that most of the progress took place after 1978, when Deng began economic reforms by breaking up collective farms and introducing market incentives into agriculture. Since that time, per capita food consumption has risen by almost...
...package was prompted by the deepening malaise of Hungary's once vigorous economy. Main causes of the slump: sagging exports, stagnating manufacturing and high government spending, which has helped push the country's hard currency debt to $16 billion, the highest per capita in the East bloc. The government hopes the new tax system, coupled with an austerity program and new incentives for industry, will fix things...
...debt debacle could hardly come at a worse time for Pyongyang. Reports filtering back from visiting academics and investment experts depict a country mired in an economic morass. Although precise numbers are hard to obtain, the per capita gross national product for the nation's 20 million people is believed to be $900, far less than South Korea's $2,274. The North's GNP rose last year by 1% to 4%, to about $20 billion, compared with a 12.5% increase, to about $95 billion, in the South. While South Korea pumps out Hyundai * automobiles and Daewoo computer equipment, some...