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...rise of 30% in per capita earnings. Since the average Soviet monthly wage is only $134, the modest increase probably indicates an official desire to hold down buying power as long as consumer items remain scarce...
Enduring Feudalism. Even without guerrilla warfare in Eritrea, Haile Selassie's ancient empire is haunted by grave troubles. Its 25 million people, a fusion of Semites, Hamites, Nilotics and Bantus, have an average per capita income of $63 per year (one of the lowest in the world). Only 7% can read. Nine out of every ten Ethiopians are subsistence farmers, and 60% of these are tenants on feudal estates. Cities are haunted by bands of beggars and thieves...
Economically, Black Africa has fared badly. It has 221 million people, or 8% of the world's population, but only 1% of the world's gross national product. Its per-capita income has increased only 1.5% a year in the past decade, and its share of world exports has declined from 2.6% in 1963 to 2.3% in 1969. Much of its economic malaise can be traced directly to the dizzily fluctuating prices of its export commodities. Copper (94% of Zambia's export and 60% of the Congo's) dropped in value from...
...their showcase, the Communists skillfully capitalized on the region's natural advantages. Emilia-Romagna has long been Italy's richest agricultural region. For the past 20 years, it has led the nation in industrial growth; thanks to an influx of new plants and fat payrolls, the per capita income in Bologna (more than $1,600 a year) is rising at a rate of better than 9% a year. Businessmen find that it is one place where they can count on local Communist politicians to keep obstreperous left-wing labor unions in line...
...snow-covered peak that cornerstones the border between Israel, Lebanon and Syria. There we spotted the first of the yellow bulldozers that are everywhere in the occupied territories, scraping and pushing, widening and straightening, lifting boulers or rearranging sand. It is said that Israel has more bulldozers per capita than any other nation; I can believe...