By John Cole (auth.)
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Ceylon's population has increased rapidly. The rate is now almost 3 per cent a year, and the population has almost doubled - to more than 12 million - in the last twenty five years. A successful campaign to wipe out malaria has meant that more than a million Ceylonese who would previously have died from malaria are alive. It is a remarkable medical 48 The Poor of the Earth achievement, but it makes the country's economic sluggishness dangerous. An economy heavily dependent on tea exports was not a good base for rapid expansion of welfare services for the growing population.
The ILO men praised the enterprise of such informal businessmen, and said they had no alternative but to make a living by catering, as tailors, masons, carpenters, or cafe owners, for the wants of their fellow citizens- principally those, like themselves, who cannot push their way into the more lucrative employment of the formal sector. ' In one, the ordinary African can get a cheap meal, cooked by his own kind; in the other a middle-class bourgeoisie, African as well as expatriate, enjoys the more lavish standards of inter- 34 The Poor of the Earth national cuisine and life-style.
Even the government's own sessional paper concedes that in the first land distribution after independence nearly half of the European land taken over was kept in estates of more than 800 acres. There has been shameless grabbing of land by politicians, civil servants, and others with political clout. This is the most extreme symbol of the greed of the Kenyan i:lite, a simple-minded determination among those who rule a new country to carry on where the Europeans they drove out had left off. One international expert said with distaste: 'This is still a poor country, yet 3 per cent of its people live in abundance.
