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...years in power, Acción Democrática has poured the country's ample oil revenues into schools, highways and public works. The economy is growing at an annual rate of 5.1%, and the benefits have spread through much of the population. Venezuela's per capita income, $745 a year, is the highest in Latin America. Unemployment is down to less than 7%, and the bolivar is one of the world's strongest currencies...
...major Asian banking, insurance and warehousing center, Singapore last year moved ahead of London into fourth place among the world's ports. Its gross national product rose by 11% to an estimated $1 billion, making the tiny republic (pop. 2,000,000) the third richest on a per capita basis in Asia, after Japan and Hong Kong. Recently, Singapore applied for full currency convertibility under the rules of the International Monetary Fund. That means that its dollar is healthy enough to be freely exchangeable with other currencies, and that Lee is succeeding in his program for survival by building...
Paprika Power Sir: Having followed the outcome of the Olympic Games since 1936, I conclude that the award for overall winner should go to Hungary. This small nation has maintained its No. 1 position, on a number-of-medals-per-capita basis, ever since Berlin...
...impressive 17% of West Germany's total. Manufacturing accounts for 54% of Baden-Württemberg's $18 billion gross product, a higher percentage than in any of the other nine German states. Some 10,600 industrial firms produce more and export more per capita than those in any other area of the country. And, according to statistics recently released by Deutsches Industrieinstitut, the state capital, Stuttgart (pop. 614,000), has edged out the Ruhr's Duisburg as the German city with the highest proportion of industrial workers: 24 out of every 100 v. Duisburg...
...result is that disposable income-the amount of money the average worker has left to spend after taxes-has never been higher. Hourly workers are paid $2.85 on the average; annual per capita disposable income has climbed 7% in a year, to $2,918. Along with these overall increases, some 3,260,000 union members automatically get from 2? to 11? more an hour each time the cost of living index goes...