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...NEPAD work? It had better. In sub-Saharan Africa 40% of people exist on less than $1 a day, and average per capita income is lower now than in the 1960s. One African in five lives in a country severely disputed by war. This decline reflects both political and institutional failure. Reform, Museveni argues, "must clearly aim at repositioning Africa from backward, agriculturally focused to industrial societies...
...move to Manila as a Congressman. Last year he returned, running for the Davao mayoralty on his eternal platform: to bring peace and order the Duterte way. The city's 1.3 million residents swept him back into office, and no wonder. On his watch, Davao's per capita crime rate has sunk to the nation's lowest. The local tourism board calls it "the most peaceful city in Southeast Asia." People once fled the place in fear; now they flee other trouble spots in the Philippines?for Davao...
...more effective use of U.S. tax dollars sent overseas. And many officials, notably Treasury Secretary O'Neill, have pointed to the failures of the past and argue that a radically different approach is the only way to justify increasing U.S. aid contributions - which are the lowest on a per capita basis of any major industrial nation...
Conscientious in his reporting, Lamb enriches his narrative with facts that catch the promise and difficulty of life in Vietnam today. At a time when Hanoi has three times as many TV sets, per capita, as Tokyo, farmers in the countryside are still struggling to get by on $5 a month. Behind the hard data, though, lies a more stirring story about reconciliation on both sides of the fence. Pete Peterson, a POW for six years in Hanoi, returned to the country as U.S. ambassador in 1997 and quickly ingratiated himself with its people by riding around town...
...Staff’s ultimate hope, it appears, is for the enactment of prohibitory gun measures. Yet historical evidence shows that gun control is a totally ineffective means of reducing crime. From 1900-1930, for example, there were relatively few changes in U.S. per capita gun ownership, but our nation’s murder rate increased tenfold. Between 1937 and 1963, however, handgun ownership increased by a whopping 250 percent, while the homicide rate actually fell by 35.7 percent...