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...Most World Bank money goes to the low-income areas," he said. "Except for the poorest countries, Haiti, Bolivia and Honduras, most of Latin America is considered middle-income," even though the per capita income is not much above the $500 level that the World Bank uses for determining middle-income status, he said...
...military aid per soldier amounted to $930, while per capita income in Nicaragua was only...
...1970s Nicaragua received the greatest U.S. military aid per capita of any Latin American country...
...build a factory, but how do you educate politicians? In what period of time can you educate politicians? What we are sure of now is that something was wrong. Something, somewhere, or many things, many places, were wrong. Otherwise you wouldn't have this unnatural situation where per capita income rose from $160 to $2,300 [at the same time as all the political unrest...
...point was that the new measures failed to extend integration in the fields of land ownership, education and medical care. Hospitals and schools remain segregated; last year the government spent $493 per capita on white schooling, but only $46 for black education. In 1977 the 48-year-old land-tenure laws, which divided the country between whites and blacks, were amended to allow blacks to buy some white-designated land. But so far only 25 blacks have had both the cash and the inclination...