Some of the extra cash has gone on new programmes aimed at reducing poverty, which afflicts some 60% of Bolivians.
"It is as much fine art as science," he says.Smoke and mirrorsBut overhauling supervision does nothing to solve another problem that afflicts developing countries: poor accounting.
A PLAGUE of Asian carp afflicts the Midwest, wiping out native species and assaulting unsuspecting fishermen.
They may also sell government bonds of peripheral countries, worsening the bond-buyers' strike that afflicts Italy and Spain.Capital is only one issue facing banks.
The problem afflicts not only those countries which collaborated with Hitler but even those which suffered terribly under him.One reason is that the Holocaust was a taboo subject in communist countries for decades after the war.
This could lead to new and urgently needed treatments for a disease that afflicts 500m people a year.The Global Malaria Action Plan, which is backed by the United Nations, wants the world to meet a series of ambitious targets by 2015.
She rightly wants to focus social policy on eliminating extreme poverty (which still afflicts about one Brazilian in ten), while improving health care and schooling.
In a symbolically significant move, Peter Dalton, whose Manto bar was the first chic gay venue to open in Canal Street, is selling up, claiming that the area's profitability peaked five or six years ago.Part of the problem is the chronic over-supply that afflicts the drink trade everywhere.
The aim, he says, is to boost Mexico's lacklustre economic growth and productivity and reduce the poverty which still afflicts about half the population.
That he continues to make considerable profits from magazines, a television channel and a website that would shock many people appears to worry the prime minister not one jot.So, what's not to like?In some ways, Mr Blair's lack of concern shows an admirable determination not to succumb to the political correctness that afflicts many on the left.
One reason, arguably, why real incomes for poor Americans rose at the end of the 1990s was because the welfare-reform law in 1996 forced them to find work.Similarly, Americans, even in recessions, still tend to lack the deep-rooted class envy that still afflicts Old Europe.
