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...what we’ve been talking about is really the use of the strategic payout.” Harvard’s $36.9 billion endowment is the largest in higher education, though it trails Princeton’s $16 billion endowment on a per-capita basis. Under increasing scrutiny, Harvard and other wealthy universities have defended their sub-five percent payout rates as necessary to build a cushion against periods of financial downturn. Several of Harvard’s schools are heavily dependent on endowment money to fund their operating budgets. While some Harvard schools, like the School...
...fact, it was once Indonesia that showed Asia the way out of the poorhouse. In 1980, when Deng Xiaoping was first nudging China toward the free market, Indonesia's per capita GDP was more than double China's. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Indonesia's fast-growing manufacturing sector was a magnet for foreign investment, and rural development schemes were so successful that the nation became self-sufficient in rice for the first time. The government even had ambitions to build commercial jets and cars. But since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Indonesia has been virtually marching in place...
...Well, it's obvious, isn't it? People in Alaska are better than people in the rest of the U.S. They're more American. Although there are small towns and farms and high school hockey teams in the lower 48, there are fewer down here, per capita, than in Alaska. And there are many more journalists and pollsters and city dwellers and other undesirables who might benefit if every American had the same right to leech off the government as do the good citizens of Sarah Palin's Alaska...
...land, the Hindu-dominated area of the state has seen widespread protests, in which at least 10 people have lost their lives. Hundreds of thousands have protested what they say is the special treatment given to the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley. While J&K receives the highest per capita financial assistance from the federal government in New Delhi, they claim, most of those resources are channeled into the Valley. They point out that J&K is the only state with its own constitution and with a special status in the Indian constitution, where outsiders cannot buy land and whose demographic...
...billion it pulled in as recently as 2005. That puts it ahead of two of the three other BRIC countries, India and Brazil. And while it still lags behind China in absolute terms, Russia is at the head of the pack when FDI is measured on a per-capita basis...