Those from The CIA World Factbook to be exact.
My cousin, Rachel is in Ghana right now. So far as African nations go Ghana is pretty well off (despite the droughts). It is still highly dependent on international aid, but it has abundant resources, an AIDS problem that is less than much of Africa, and, I find this depressing, a distribution of income that is better than the United States. That's right an African nation which used to be named Gold Coast, which has gold, diamonds and oil, and, therefore, huge potential for exploitation actually has less disparity between rich and poor--in terms of income--than the United States (don't believe me, go to the factbook, this is the CIA's data, not mine). If you are a poor person in the world you have more financial power (w/in your country) if you live in Ghana than you do if you live in the United States.
Bush's new motto should be: "Tax cuts: bringing the golden age of colonial Africa to the new world."
(Yes, I am aware of issues with using the gini coefficient, but they do not mean it is wrong...oh, and that is a wiki article that seems to be somewhat slanted.)
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