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...hungry people than elsewhere, says the FAO, but the "depth of hunger" - a calculation based on what energy they get from their food and the minimum energy needed to maintain body weight - is greatest in sub-Saharan Africa, home to some of the world's poorest countries. There, some 186 million people - more than a third of the population - are considered undernourished. ? In many sub-Saharan countries, according to a report by the World Water Council, the average per capita water-use rates are 10 to 20 liters a day, which it calls "undesirably low." By contrast, per capita residential...
Aristide has always been the Third World leader the U.S. thinks it ought to like but can't. He was the priest who helped topple the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986--and then the elected President whom thousands of U.S. G.I.s restored to power after a military coup a decade ago. Yet he is also seen as a mystic demagogue whose Fanmi Lavalas Party allegedly committed electoral fraud in last May's Senate races. Bush, as a result, sent no one to Aristide's inauguration...
...more to legally start a business--and it costs, in government fees, 31 times the minimum monthly wage. To legally own a home in the Philippines, De Soto says, requires a wait of as long as 25 years and 168 often venal bureaucratic steps. As a result, the Third World's poor--two-thirds of the world's population--have little choice but to work outside the legal system. De Soto estimates the value of their extralegal property at $9.3 trillion--about as large as the annual GDP of the U.S. economy. More than two-thirds of Latin America...
...third-grader in Seoul who, like many eight-year-olds around the world, is nuts about Pokémon. But unlike most kids, he's conflicted. He knows the popular animated characters come from Japan. He has also learned in school how Japanese soldiers brutally invaded and colonized his homeland back in 1910. After his mother reminded him that every Pocket Monster sold helped Japan get richer, Doo Dam successfully resisted buying any Pokémon cards. "Japan is bad," he says. "No one nation should be above another nation...
...rich country that buys Van Goghs and golf courses, gives billions for roads and bridges and gets ripped off when it goes traveling - can't get a break. Since 1969, Japan's government has spent $80 billion in assistance on its Asian neighbors. It is Indonesia's third-largest donor, behind the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. It is India's largest bilateral benefactor. The roads, sewers and airport runways clearly benefit the countries - from China to Cambodia - where they are built, though the money too often has been tied to projects that go to big Japanese construction...