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...land reform in 1963. The family received 125 acres under a complicated system that bars it from subdividing the land into small, uneconomic plots but provides a good income. Mashhadi Nik-Dehghan's crop of grapes and apples last year earned him $9,000, four times Iran's per capita income. Other programs have provided his town with a paved road, a clinic, a school and self-rule through a village council set up by Tehran. Nik-Dehghan's son Zakriya can read and write (unlike his father) because the government sent four teachers to Lashkar-Abad. The Shah, says...
...prices after 1973. Though the money enabled the Pérez administration to triple government spending in five years, to $10.7 billion in 1978, many of Venezuela's 13 million citizens felt that they had gotten less than a trickle of the oil windfall. Venezuela's per capita income has risen sharply and is now, at $2,357, South America's highest, but poverty is still widespread. Highly skilled jobs often go begging, but within sight of Caracas' high-rise skyline hundreds of thousands of peasants live in shanty towns that lack water, roads and sewers...
...said that Ireland's greatest export is men. The population is rising for the first time in modern history. Irishmen are returning home from distant lands. And a most remarkable development is occurring: at current growth rates, the Irish standard of living-based on production per capita-in 1980 will surpass that of once mighty Britain...
...them to buy hard-to-find luxury items without paying normally high taxes on them. Privates on long-term enlistments receive $400 a month and sergeants $1,000; conscripts, who constitute only 20% of the force, get the equivalent of a dollar a day. (Iran's civilian per capita income: $2,200 a year.) Barracks are modern, food is good and furloughs are generous; the army even provides its troops with their own mosques and movie theaters...
...Spence, Associate Dean of the College, said she did not think any funds for current operation of the Houses came from alumni gifts. She added that College funds are distributed to Houses on a per capita basis...