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...dictate laissez-faire economic systems, but that is what is happening in Chile. The result is that inflation, which was as high as 1,000% in 1973, has been beaten back to about 38%. Real growth spurted 7.3% in 1978 and rose another 7.5% or so last year. Per capita income is up to $1,500; in real terms, the people are at least back around the income levels of 1970. That was when Allende was elected and began to crank up the printing presses to cover spiraling government deficits that led to economic disaster...
...much industrial output per person as in the United States. The standards of living and the average income was of roughly the same order as in the United States. Japanese investment in new industrial plant and equipment already rivalled the United States (it totalled twice as much per capita), but with overall economic growth--especially industrial growth and productivity--increasing much more rapidly than the United States, Japan had the momentum to become the world's dominant economic power...
...threatens to overwhelm Morris and others like her because the nation's death row population, now totaling some 570, is climbing by almost 100 people a year.* Eighty percent of the prisoners mark their time in the states of the Old Confederacy; Georgia has the largest number per capita in the country. While most welcome legal help, there are exceptions: in Georgia, convicted murderer Jack Potts, who says he is in severe phys ical pain, pleaded last week that lawyers drop his appeals...
...history." In the mid-1960s the country's peaceful mode of life, under the benevolently authoritarian rule of Prince Sihanouk, was suddenly imperiled by the Viet Nam conflict. At the time, Cambodia was an overwhelmingly agricultural country that exported rice. Though it could hardly have been termed prosperous?per capita income was only $110 a year?its people lived relatively well by Asian standards. Unfortunately, the Cambodian army was weak and poorly equipped; Sihanouk was unable to prevent the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese from using parts of the country as sanctuaries and resupply routes for their forces...
Park's main goal in office was to turn South Korea into a dynamic capitalist society on the Asian mainland, using Japan as a model. In this he succeeded. Since 1961, South Korea's per capita income has risen from $85 a year to around $1,500. South Korea now has a gross national product of some $50 billion (four times that of North Korea), and is a hard-bargaining rival to Japan in exports of steel, ships and textiles. New superhighways cut through the countryside; high-rise offices and apartments form towering sky lines in Korean cities...