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11-04-2004, 10:33 AM
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@C Elegans: perhaps we have a different view of the word 'poverty'. You mean that the land itself is rich, I mean that the people are poor. As in most countries with dictatorial governments, the most money and land is in possession of very few people. In Thailand 11% of the people lives below the poverty line, more then double of Belgium (3,8%). In Belgium (and probably in Sweden too) unemployed people get enough money a month to live, disease insurance, a decent pension wage, and a major percentage of medicine cost is payed by the government, which is as far as I know not the case in Thailand, Malaysia or South Korea
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