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More like a complete overhaul. Even before the military grabbed power in September 1991, Haiti had the fewest telephones, least electric power and lowest gross domestic product in the western hemisphere. After three years of terrorist misrule, real GDP fell one-third, income dropped to $205 per capita, and the gourde lost half its value. The government deficit soared to 10 times its former level, while revenues dropped by half: by some estimates, only 2,500 people in a population of nearly 7 million paid income taxes...
...cannot rein in his followers' demands, those fantasies could explode when they collide with reality. Haiti's economic, social and physical foundations are in ruins: "The ultimate developmental nightmare," says a $ State Department official. Even before the coup and the embargo, the country had the lowest per capita income, lowest life expectancy and highest mortality rate in the Americas. More than half the children are malnourished; tuberculosis and AIDS ravage the population. The nation's domestic output has declined every year since 1981. "Haiti is not on the way to becoming a basket case," said a recent unclassified report from...
Forty-three percent of those solicited made donations. The per capita contribution...
Which means, of course, more foul ball territory per capita...
...could hardly have picked a more appropriate place for next week's International Conference on Population and Development than crowded, chaotic Cairo. Home to 14 million people, the Egyptian capital shows all too clearly the consequences of the inexorable human drive to have children. Cairo's open space per capita must be measured in square inches, and the poorest citizens build shelters on rooftops, in cemeteries and in the city dump. Cramped conditions are nothing new, of course, but even old-timers lament that population pressures are making Egyptians "bestial" to one another...