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Both Pepsi and Coke have campaigned vigorously for the Thai market. Tropical thirsts have driven consumption of soft drinks there up to a strong 50 to 60 bottles per person per year, despite an annual per capita income of only $350. Although Coke's overall sales, including those of Sprite and Fanta, top Pepsi's total market share 46% to 34%, Coke alone has long trailed Pepsi by a wide margin...
...World Bank's lending funds, but the country's foreign aid programs have not kept up with inflation in recent years. In 1970 U.S. foreign aid was, by almost any measure, one of the most generous programs in the world. But, on a per capita basis, the U.S. now ranks only an embarrassing 15th among industrialized nations in foreign aid, just ahead of Italy. Thus, to Third World nations, loans from the World Bank are now more important than ever...
Little more than a year ago, West Germany was the confident powerhouse of Europe. Powerful it still is, and undoubtedly it will remain so, but the populous (61.3 million), rich (1980 per capita income: $12,400) and gifted nation that has so often been a victim of its own excesses is now gripped by a uniquely Teutonic mood of Angst, an attitude that in some respects is not "far removed from a crisis of confidence," in the words of Karl Otto Pohl, president of West Germany's central bank. And nowhere are the effects of that mood more evident...
...nowhere in this hemisphere are there so many people so poor as in Haiti (pop. 6 million; per capita income, less than $300), and thus so eager to scrape together as much as $1,500 for the trip to Florida. The passage is usually unpleasant, sometimes fatal. Raymond Antoine, 46, is a Krome Avenue North inmate who spent five weeks in a small boat with 148 fellow Haitians. Asked why he persevered, he said, "Misė, miseė [Poverty, poverty!] My eight children are starving. I have to get work, money to feed them from here...
...city already seemed beyond redemption in 1973 when Young, pitted against a white law-and-order Republican in a hard-fought campaign, squeaked into city hall with only 12,000 votes to spare. Still scarred by the 1967 race riots, Detroit had the highest per capita murder rate in the nation and within six months faced a budget deficit of $103 million. To combat crime and regain the confidence of the predominantly black city, Young pushed integration of the police department-in 1973 the force was only 15% black compared with 40% today-and assigned more officers to foot patrols...