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...noodle factory employs 3,500 and estimates its annual sales at $50 million. One of the country's largest producers of rice vermicelli, egg noodles and wheat biscuits, TPS saw its production drop about 20% after the fall of Suharto as wheat prices doubled. TPS vice president Budhi Istanto, whose family started the business in 1959, credits IRD with helping the company "get back to its optimal capacity. We were not going to close, but we slowed production as the price of wheat rose and people were buying less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching Them to Fish | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

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