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...Among the ills cited: per-pupil funding of only $1,965 for 1981-82, vs. a national average of $2,671, and a dropout rate that is double the national average. The school system reflected a culture of poverty: Mississippi has consistently ranked lowest of all states in per capita income since record keeping began...
...coca bushes. He harvests the leaves three times a year and processes them in a bath of gasoline, sulfuric acid, potassium permanganate and ammonia. "You can't blame me if others get poisoned with this stuff," Monroy says. "This is what they pay me for." Colombia's annual per capita income is about $1,150. From his annual end product, 35 lbs. of paste, Monroy nets $65,000. Inflation along this booming stretch of the Guayabero River is understandably rampant: prostitutes can earn $3,000 a month, coffins cost $450 each...
Venezuela, for example, has run up a foreign debt of $25 billion. The country's per capita output of goods and services has sunk to a level about 15% below where it was in 1978. Faced with a drop in oil revenues this year of at least $4 billion, Venezuela has shelved plans for construction of a new railroad, a steel mill and several highways. With an election coming in December, the government is already getting edgy about political unrest. Three journalists were jailed two weeks ago for criticizing the President...
Textile production is central to the nation's economy although the country has untapped resources of timber and national gas. Bangladesh received more than $1.1 billion in foreign aid last year, and is one of the poorest nations in the world, with an annual per capita income of less than...
...political turmoil currently gripping Bangladesh is the latest blow to a country already staggering under huge social and economic problems. Covering an area the size of Wisconsin, Bangladesh has 94 million people, nearly half of them under 16 years old. Desperately poor (per capita income: $123), the country has received more than $10 billion in aid over the past decade, including a total of $1.2 billion this year from Japan, the U.S. and the World Bank...