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...terms of the treaty, its successors could easily reverse or rewrite it. China has proved to be singularly unpredictable in years past, with its violent and frequent pendulum swings from left to right. Clearly, the Communist nation has much to gain from protecting its capitalist jewel: the per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong is 18 times that of China, and already the 400-sq.-mile colony supplies its colossal neighbor with up to 40% of its entire foreign-exchange earnings. Even those practical considerations, however, could be swept aside during a leftist backlash. In that event, noted...
...further fallacy is the assumption that the greater the population, the lower the standard of living. This is not true. Japan has a population density of 829 people per sq. mi., yet has a higher per capita gross national product ($10,080) than India, which has 577 people...
Located on the southern edge of the Sahara, it is one of the poorest countries in Africa, with a per capita income of $210 a year. Its 6.7 million people have been suffering from recurring drought that has caused widespread hardship and political instability. This month Upper Volta shed the name that the French bequeathed along with independence 24 years ago. President Thomas Sankara, 34, who seized power last year, decreed that his country would hence forth be known as Burkina Faso...
...costly, and Federici asks, "Who is going to pay for it?" That is the ultimate question in controlling malaria. According to one estimate, the cost of producing a malaria vaccine and distributing it to Third World children would be $200 million. In countries where less than $5 per capita is spent on annual health care, even a mosquito net is a luxury. -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Mary Carpenter/New York and Patricia Delaney/Washington
...city keeps growing by nearly 150,000 inhabitants a year. "Officially, they speak of 30 to 40 sq. ft. of housing per capita," says one foreign expert, "but at the core it's more like 20 sq. ft. and in some sections only 16 sq. ft. That's barely standing room...