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...nation faces pressing problems. The per capita income is only $56 a year, and the population is still so primitive that in last summer's general election both the Nationalist Party and the opposition Afro-Shirazi Party hired witch doctors to influence the results...
...Indian government cannot afford to assume this, he said, and in a country with a per capita income of only $100 a year, the purchase of expensive war materials "hurts in the real physical sense of deprivation and hunger." This expense could also endanger the success of Indian's economic development program, unless she receives sufficient aid from abroad...
...while Williams gets all the political mileage he can out of anticolonialism, he has not led his infant country of 900,000 people into the leftist camp or driven away business. With a relatively high $500-per-capita annual income, Trinidad could expect no great influx of U.S. or British government aid. But the U.S. came through with a pledge of $30 million over a five-year period for development projects, and has promised to build a road from Port of Spain to the U.S. Chaguaramas Naval Base. So far, despite Trinidad's own slight recession, industrialization is proceeding...
...Alliance's basic premise is one of matching funds: that is, Alliance money will supplement government and private capital for approved projects. With real per capita income falling, the cost of living doubling yearly and the world's least stable currency, Brazil has trouble matching American allocations. But Goulart knows that the rest of the hemisphere does not share Brazil's problems. His condemnation of the Alliance before the assembled representatives of the Latin republics was calculated to secure greater recognition of Brazil as a hemispheric leader...
...begin with, the mess has very little to do with crime. Reporters find it exciting to present accounts of visitors being robbed "within sight of the Capitol dome," but it is still true that of the twelve largest American cities, Washington had only the seventh highest crime rate per capita. The crime rate is on the rise in the District; it is also going up in the other eleven cities...