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...least some of Tanzania's current problems stem from Nyerere's dogged adherence to doctrinaire socialism, particularly in the farming areas where 85% of his 14 million people live. Nyerere still sees the solution to his nation's poverty (the per capita G.N.P. is $84 a year) in a system of collective villages that would provide such essential services as schools, clinics and running water...
Hypothetical situation: if a rich country has a four per cent rate of economic growth and a one per cent rate of population growth, per capita G.N.P. increases three per cent a year, nineteen times a century. But with the same economic growth rate and a two and half per cent rate of population growth, G.N.P. per capita rises in a poor country only one and a half per cent a year, or five times a century. The greater population growth in the poor country effectively eliminated its chances of catching up. And in the real world, of course, there...
...educated people have fewer children. Embrace women's rights. Spread health care; poor families have so many children partly because they expect a few to die. Brown's most interesting suggestion is that "reform" (he carefully avoids specific proposals here) will bring down fertility levels. Although Brazil's per capita G.N.P. is almost twice as high as Taiwan's, and family size usually shrinks as incomes rise, Brazil has hardly dented its birth rate in the last 20 years; Taiwan has halved its own. The reason, according to Brown: illiteracy, unemployment, and infant mortality are low in Taiwan, high...
...with citrus groves and vineyards, exported lemons, oranges, grapes and wines to Europe. It produced automotive parts for Middle Eastern countries, and its beaches lured 250,000 tourists a year. By the early 1970s, Cyprus was one of the eastern Mediterranean's most prosperous nations, with a per capita income of $1,460, and there was virtually no unemployment. Even the long-festering animosity between Greek and Turkish Cypriots was sweetened by the good life, and an eventual healing seemed possible...
That statistic brings no pleasure to the soft drink, beer and container industries. The banned flip-top cans are by far the most popular of beverage containers. Indeed, they seem to have a direct role in boosting consumption; since this type of can was introduced in 1959, per capita consumption of soft drinks and beer has risen by 33%. Industry spokesmen claim that Oregon's law not only threatens the growth of their business but also hikes costs. The sturdy returnable bottles that the law requires are twice as expensive as thin-walled "oneway" containers. And the empties must...