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...government of Prime Minister P: W. Botha blames the unrest on unnamed "agitators," but it can hardly deny the gross educational inequalities that separate the country's racial groups. White students in government-supported schools enjoy annual per capita expenditures of $677; coloreds get $227; blacks $66. Resentment over these glaring imbalances is coupled with an even deeper sense of frustration at the all-embracing system of apartheid that perpetuates the inability of nonwhites to compete on an equal footing with whites...
...United States, only in more modern facilities and that in shipbuilding, facilities unrivaled in the world, it produces as much shipping tonnage as all of Europe and the United States combined. By 1978, Japan's GNP was about half of America's or about the same as ours per capita. However, by then Japan was already producing about three-fourths as much value in manufactured goods as the United States, or about one and one-half times as much per capita. Total Japanese land area is about the size of Montana...
...have prospered by using the classical capitalist tools: private initiative and the profit incentive. Over the past four years the Hong Kong economy has grown by an amazing 12.75% annually, while unemployment has been a modest 2% despite huge influxes of refugees from neighboring China. During that period, per capita real income increased...
...slums remain vast and the poverty within them intractable, but in the areas that matter to a newspaper publisher, Washington and environs house the prefect audience for an advertiser-hungry concern. Forget New York's Westchester and even San Francisco's Marin; the county with the highest per capita income in the nation is Montgomery, Maryland. Just the real estate ads from these booming suburbs could have kept the Post in investigative reporters for years...
Shah considers himself, first and foremost, a realist. He argues that advanced Western nations grant liberties which would threaten the stability of an impoverished Third World country like Nepal. With an annual income of $110 per capita and a literacy rate of 18 per cent, Nepal is undergoing development at an unprecedented, albeit glacial rate. The mountainous terrain--Nepal, home of Mounts Everest and Annapurna, is flanked entirely by the Himalayas--provides for poor communications, medical services and transportation of the agricultural goods produced by 90 per cent of the workforce. Shah denies that the mere infusion...