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...Center for Economic and Social Investigations, a private liberal think tank in San Salvador, estimates that one-fifth of the population controls two-thirds of the nation's wealth; the poor face meager prospects for finding jobs or improving their share. The government has earmarked $100 million to retrain ex-combatants, and foreign donors have pledged up to $1 billion in aid. But with unemployment at 50%, widespread illiteracy and a legacy of violence, El Salvador is unlikely to attract the kind of foreign investors flocking to more promising Latin American countries...
...black-hulled steam frigate Susquehanna into Edo Bay (now Tokyo Bay) and "opened" Japan at gunpoint, after more than two centuries of self-imposed isolation, to American merchants and missionaries. Humiliated, the Japanese decided to modernize their feudal regime by imitating the barbarian invaders. They hired French officers to retrain their soldiers and British shipbuilders to create their navy. From the Germans they learned the secrets of modern science and from the Americans the secrets of modern commerce...
...program is also aiming to create a Russian Institute of Law, designed to "raise the qualifications of legal standards" and retrain Russian lawyers who were schooled in the old and quickly changing system, Reynolds says...
Eastern Europe remains a risky, often maddening place to do business. One of the first tasks of Western companies is to retrain local labor forces that grew slack under communism and lack disciplined work habits. Simple bookkeeping can be a major problem: East European companies have been taught to follow central plans, and know little about Western-style profit-and-loss statements. At the same time, Eastern Europe's infrastructure is woefully inadequate for modern industry and commerce. A recent study by the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank estimated that the region would require 274,000 miles of new roads...
...obligation to those workers and to the loggers of the Northwest? It would be impossibly costly for Congress to insure every citizen against the winds of change. But when scores of communities are imperiled, relief measures are necessary. In the case of the Northwest, the Federal Government should help retrain loggers and millworkers and provide towns with grants to spur economic diversification. Congress could also help sustain the Northwest's processing mills by passing legislation aimed at reducing raw-log exports...