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Mali's annual per capita income is $53, and its national budget this year amounted to a sizable $58 million. It recently got a U.S. grant of $2,500,000, while Communist-bloc aid has totaled some $100 million over the past two years. But its most pressing need is for still more foreign...
...setup) enrolls the members; it then contracts to pay Kaiser Foundation Hospitals (a charitable, non-tax-paying organization) a fixed fee per member per month for hospital care. It also contracts with one of four medical groups (associations of physicians) to provide medical and surgical services for a per capita fee. The hospitals run a research institute and a nursing school. The parent plan builds such facilities as clinics, which it leases to the medical groups. Dapite, Inc. is a planwide subsidiary which prepackages medicines and supplies them at bargain rates to the hospitals and clinics (whose doctors also agree...
...chunk of green hills slightly larger than the state of Rhode Island, lying below the southernmost end of the Windward Islands, it is separated from the Venezuelan coast by ten miles of water and oil derricks. Rich with sugar as well as with oil, Trinidad has the highest per capita income ($480) in the British West Indies. It exports the second largest barrelage of crude oil in the Commonwealth (after Canada), earns a national income of $438 million, compared with the $570 million earned in Jamaica, which has twice the population. Along with exports of asphalt, rum, and ladies...
...same, going it alone presents problems to Trinidad-Tobago and its Oxford-educated mulatto Premier, Eric Williams, 51. Britain's entrance into the European Common Market could cost Trinidad its preferential trade status (32% of its exports) with the mother country. Trinidad's high per capita income notwithstanding, 20% of its people are unemployed. To attract industry, Trinidad, like Puerto Rico, offers an income-tax-free holiday of up to ten years...
...Proverb. Behind Jamaica's pomp lay some sorrier economic circumstances. Despite its fairly high-for the Caribbean-per capita income of $359, the country has a pressing want list for low-cost housing, sanitation and water systems, hospitals and roads. All through the week's celebrations, Jamaica's Premier, craggy-faced, white-haired Sir Alexander Bustamante, courted Johnson with extravagant words and gracious gestures, talked endlessly of U.S.-Jamaican solidarity, even offered to let the U.S. set up military bases on the island "when and if it pleases." British and U.S. aid programs are already...