africa
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Country GDP - per capita income 2004
1 : Luxembourg $ 58,900.
2 : United States $ 40,100
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19 : United Kingdom $ 29,600
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32 : European Union $ 26,900
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199 : Djibouti $ 1,300
200 : Rwanda $ 1,300
201 : Benin $ 1,200
202 : Mozambique $ 1,200
203 : Burkina Faso $ 1,200
204 : Sao Tome and Principe $ 1,200
205 : Central African Republic $ 1,100
208 : Kenya $ 1,100
209 : Nigeria $ 1,000
211 : Eritrea $ 900
212 : Zambia $ 900
213 : Niger $ 900
214 : Mali $ 900
215 : Liberia $ 900
217 : Congo, Republic of the $ 800
219 : Ethiopia $ 800
223 : Congo, Democratic Republic of the $ 700
224 : Guinea-Bissau $ 700
225 : Tanzania $ 700
227 : Burundi $ 600
228 : Somalia $ 600
230 : Sierra Leone $ 600
231 : Malawi $ 600
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CIA world fact book
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"The G7 finance ministers agreed Saturday to write off the debt of 18 of the poorest countries, but firm prescriptions of privatisation hovered over the debt relief offer. Finance ministers from the Group of Seven of the world's leading industrialised nations - United States, Canada, Japan, Britain, France, Germany and Italy (the G8, minus Russia) - agreed to write off 100 percent of the debt of 18 of the poorest countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. That will amount to debt cancellation of about two billion dollars a year.
"Campaigners focusing on debt relief welcomed the move. But the finance ministers' agreement contains a provision on privatisation that has the potential to deliver to them more money than they wrote off.
" The ministers reaffirmed in a statement at the end of their two-day meeting Saturday that 'in order to make progress on social and economic development, it is essential that developing countries put in place the policies for economic growth.' Among these, they must 'boost private sector development, and attract investment,' and ensure 'the elimination of impediments to private investment, both domestic and foreign.'
"The ministers committed themselves to a successful outcome for the Doha Development Agenda, agreed at the World Trade Organisation's ministerial meet in the Qatar capital in 2001.
" This, they said, 'delivers substantial increases in market access for developing countries, establishes a timetable for the elimination of all trade-distorting export support in agriculture, and provides effective special and differential treatment for developing countries.'
"The commitment to 'elimination of all trade-distorting export support in agriculture' stops well short, however, of an agreement to end subsidies to farmers in rich countries, estimated at more than 300 billion dollars a year. It is these subsidies rather than specific programmes to support exports that have created artificially low prices for Western produce that are choking exports from developing countries. "
Inter Press Service