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Economically, Guinea fared little better under Toure. Despite its vast resources of bauxite (used to make aluminum), diamonds and iron, Guinea remains a desperately poor nation. Annual per capita income is $290, life expectancy is less than 40 years, and the infant mortality rate is tragically high. In the rundown capital of Conakry, there has been little new construction in 25 years. Businesses must provide their own services, even such basic ones as electricity and water. Malnourished children play listlessly in the streets...
...hundreds of examples to prove this. It is enough to say that the U.S. gives Israel about $3 billion a year. This means that each Israeli gets $1,000 a year from the pockets of American citizens. Now you should know that in 90% of Third World countries, per capita income is much less than this figure. Moreover, we have to take into consideration that a big part of this money is in the form of sophisticated weapons which in turn are used to kill our citizens and to occupy our land...
Most recently arrived Haitians seem satisfied with life here and are anxious to work hard and save money. But it would not be hard to improve on Haitian economic conditions--the island's unemployment rate is higher than 50 percent and the annual per capita income of only...
...largesse) and China were forced to borrow at the bank's subsidized interest rates, according to the report, the poorer countries could receive higher levels of aid. To qualify for the grants, which, technically, must be repaid within 50 years, a country must have a per capita income of less than...
...series of meetings between the sworn archenemies may have been prompted more by economic necessity than ideological choice. With a per capita gross national product of $140 (compared with around $14,000 in the U.S.), Mozambique remains one of the world's poorest nations. Ongoing problems of mismanagement, corruption, lack of skilled workers and faulty agricultural planning have been compounded by the worst drought in 50 years. Over the past six months as many as 100,000 have died of starvation; 4 million of the country's 12.5 million people still do not have enough to eat. When...