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...five-year plan in 1975. He decreed 5% wage increases for some 90 million salaried workers, premium pay for night work and a hike in pensions. He also introduced a family-assistance plan that will provide government subsidies for families whose monthly per capita income is less than 50 rubles ($55). Carefully avoiding words like poverty, he described such families as "underprovisioned." In all, the family program is likely to affect some 34 million Russians...
Mendicant Among Nations. If East Pakistan eventually takes its place in the world community as Bangla Desh, it will have the world's eighth largest population and lowest per capita income ($50 a year). It will, inevitably, become a mendicant among nations, and the U.S. will face the need to increase the $250 million a year in foreign aid that it now gives to the combined wings of the country. East Pakistan has little industry to speak of, and the world demand for jute is gradually dropping. West Pakistan will also be left smaller and poorer, though...
...children are reluctant to swallow the solution, it has proved astoundingly effective with adults. Tested on more than 4,000 cholera victims in both Dacca and rural areas, it has proved as effective as intravenous treatment in curbing cholera mortality. Equally important in a country where the average per capita income is only $50 a year, it has sharply reduced the price of treatment. The cost of intravenous treatmen for cholera is about 200 rupees, or $42 Enough oral solution to cure the average victim costs only three rupees...
Inequality between the two regions has been increasing since the country's founding in 1947, according to a February 1971 article in Trans-Action magazine. Per capita income in the East was 85 per cent that of the West in 1951. That figure dropped to 62 per cent...
...Citibank survey (the leader: amusement companies). The rise stemmed largely from successful diversification that has taken the cigarette makers into products and services as varied as pet food, soap, whisky, watches and shipping. The profit gains also reflected the reversal last year of a three-year drop in per capita cigarette consumption. Average consumption worked out to 4,039 cigarettes a year for each American over 18, or slightly more than half a pack a day, up from 3,993 in 1969. Winston is still the best-selling brand, followed by Pall Mall, Marlboro, Salem and Kool. Regular Camels (there...