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Indonesia's economy has taken a hard fall, and no level of society has escaped the pain. The population of more than 200 million people has seen per capita income drop from $1,200 to $300 almost overnight. Tinted-glass towers in the business district of what was last year one of Asia's hottest cities for investors now stand virtually empty. Corporations have no way of repaying the $70 billion they borrowed from foreign banks, and much business has simply ceased. At the other end of the economic scale, poor households have no way of paying the escalating prices...
Standards of living, per capita income and education levels slowly began to rise. Ricardo's long-promised windfalls from comparative advantage appeared as countries traded manufactured goods across nation-state lines. Millions of new jobs were created, providing new outlets for the skills of the world's citizenry...
Fortunately for Nike, the brand is not so controversial in the rest of the world, where most of its growth lies. Last year sales outside the U.S. increased 49%, and represent about 38% of the total. Like Coca-Cola, Nike measures purchases per capita per country. In the U.S. it's more than $20, but in the rest of the world the figure is $6 or $7, and as little as $2 or $3 in Germany, home of Adidas and Puma. That's why Nike has made soccer the focus of an unprecedented assault. The logic is simple. Soccer...
...test for potential [EU] members is not GNP or per capita income, but rather the potential for development of economic and political structures," Brittan said...
...Plus business is picking up in Angola, the world?s per capita leader in active land mines (more than 9 million) and land mine victims (around 90,000). According to a U.N. report Thursday, rebel forces are actually re-planting mines along major highways previously cleared of the weapons ? the three-year old peace accord notwithstanding...