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Economic optimists note also that although Israel may have the world's highest per capita foreign debt ($5,350, compared with $1,540 for Argentina), only $5.6 billion of the $22.5 billion total has been borrowed from commercial banks. The remainder is owed to more forgiving lenders: the U.S. and Jewish benefactors around the world...
...largely because governments are constantly under pressure from farm lobbies not to cut back. Because Britain's agricultural system is so limited, the country was receiving fewer subsidies than other member states. As a result, Britain, one of the Community's poorest members in terms of per capita income, was contributing more to the $21.3 billion budget than any other nation except West Germany. Each member's contribution is based mainly on the country's receipts from the value-added tax, a type of sales tax. Thatcher argued that Britain paid 21% of the Community...
...author of the report, M. Harvey Brenner of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, linked the sharp rise in unem ployment during the 1973-74 recession to a subsequent 2.8% rise hi deaths from heart attacks. Brenner found that a 3% decline in per capita income during the recession later caused 46,000 deaths from heart disease. Indeed, increased business failures were responsible for even more heart-disease fatalities - 95,680, to be exact...
During the same period, average per capita income fell 33%, to about $475 annually. Unemployment and underemployment hover at about 45%, even though an estimated 750,000 Salvadorans have fled the country. Duarte's solution is to stimulate employment with public works programs and a liberal policy of lending money to small businesses...
...under the banner of Marxism. They have transformed the nation's agricultural system, awakened its cultural life and quintupled the income of millions of peasants. Their ambitions, moreover, seem almost limitless: they aim to quadruple the gross national product, double the nation's output of energy, and raise per capita annual income from the present $300 to $800 by the year 2000. "Deng sees the Mao era as an interregnum between dynasties," notes a Western diplomat in Peking. "He sees his own epoch as the real beginning of the People's Republic...