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...China's task is staggering. Even if it maintained a 6% growth in G.N.P. between now and the year 2000, its per capita income still would not exceed the internationally accepted poverty level of $1,000 a year. The country is starting its development struggle with a heritage of chaos, when the nation's economic machinery rusted and the human capital went untrained. It will take tremendous work and continued ideological flexibility to achieve even the more modest goals that have recently been...
...seem to be much in Chad worth fighting about. Carved out of former French Equatorial Africa, it is impoverished, plagued by drought, malaria and periodic locust swarms. Its only known resource is a uranium deposit far in the north. Perhaps it is Chad's poverty (annual per capita income: $120) that makes its religious and ethnic rivalries so fierce. With so little to go around, each side must fight all the harder to obtain a life-sustaining share...
...special relationship with the U.S. has enabled Mexico to achieve one of the fastest growing economies in the Third World; its gross national product after several very bad years, is once again increasing by about 6% a year. But the majority of Mexicans live in bleak poverty; per capita income was $1,070 a year in 1974, one-sixth of what it was in the U.S. Moreover, Mexico has one of the world's highest unemployment rates, up to half of its work force by some estimates...
Over the years, the Conchs of Key West have seen their island roller-coaster through a series of spectacular booms and busts. Organized development began in the 1830s and the lucrative business of salvaging wrecked ships soon made the town the wealthiest per capita...
...latest strike, it is said in the bars and bazaars, was so great that a 30-ton bulldozer was hurled 50 feet into the air. This year the Iraqis are importing $1 billion worth of Western goods. In less than a decade, the country's per capita income has jumped from $200 to $1,500. Yet the Iraqis have managed to hold their inflation rate to 8%. They have also held foreign influence over their oil industry to a minimum. Says an Iraqi Petroleum Company official: "We are the only Arab country that can make this claim...