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...were dead and which were alive. Khondakar was alive, because he broadcast an appeal for support for his successor. But the short-lived Chief of Staff Khalid was reported killed only a few hours after he had come to power. All over Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest, most overcrowded and most mismanaged nations, there were fearful signs of rising disorder...
...first is the income distribution. Rich people always use more food than they have to, especially in places where fat is a status symbol. Every pound of meat an American peace corpsman or Bengali professor buys takes seven pounds of grain off the market. This, of course, pushes the poorest of the poor below subsistence, towards death. With an equal income distribution, Bangladesh's food needs could be thirty per cent less than they are today. Even today, however, everyone might be well fed (or at least fed adequately) if there weren't such appalling corruption. No more than...
...really extravagant when the richest, most wasteful nation on earth spends $34.88 a week on the poorest 8.4% of its citizens...
...economic policy could be catastrophic. By virtually every measure of economic performance and social wellbeing, Britain is already far behind its chief rivals in Europe−West Germany and France−barely ahead of Italy, and apparently set on a course that could soon make it one of the poorest of the non-Communist industrial nations (see chart). Between 1967 and 1973, when growth rates were soaring in the U.S., Japan and most of Western Europe, Britain's economy expanded by an annual average of only 2.2%. At the same time, Britain was struggling with a chronic balance...
...destroyed many of the mosquitoes that transmit encephalitis, the disease often hit thousands each year. Despite improvements in mosquito-control methods, encephalitis still persists, particularly in humid, swampy areas. Of the 100-odd victims in the hardest-hit Mississippi town of Greenville (pop. 40,000), many live in the poorest part of town. Of those infected in Illinois, most live near cemeteries, where mosquito larvae have been flourishing in water-filled flower vases...