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Without money, we would be immeasurably poorer, and not only in a financial sense.
Rich economies (Western Europe, the US, Canada, and Australia) moved steadily ahead, while most poorer countries, despite some episodes of decent growth, did not move significantly closer to the leaders’ productivity and income levels.
According to all evidence, the US economy’s fall from its long-run growth path has left America 7% poorer today (and into the indefinite future) than expected back in 2007.
If a mostly well-handled bubble collapse in a low-inflation US economy could permanently push down potential economic growth by roughly 10% over a decade, is it out of the question that a poorly handled bubble collapse could, over a generation, leave Japan’s economy 40% poorer than it might have been?
That approach has left many economists themselves living in countries that are considerably poorer than they expected.
Russian democracy is almost as young and blind as Putin's puppies - but much poorer.
As the poor get poorer and the rich get richer, many are asking if this is what “socialism with Chinese characteristics” really means.
The right support would help traders in poorer countries to compete and integrate into global supply chains.
As Greece and others face crises, the medicine du jour is simply timeworn austerity packages and privatization, which will merely leave the countries that embrace them poorer and more vulnerable.
Achieving these goals is bound to involve a greater regard for social equality, after a period in which the very rich have been able to protect a “Roaring Twenties” lifestyle through cleverly exploiting the “culture wars” – i.e., the populist prejudices of their much poorer fellow citizens.
Banking "reform," for example, frequently soon required government bail-outs, leaving a few people much richer, but the country much poorer.
Obviously, both countries would be considerably poorer without access to foreign markets.
In either case, it is an agenda favored by developed or rapidly emerging countries, which poorer economies cannot afford.
Although China is closing the gap by increasing its spending on robots, poorer countries face significant barriers to adopting new technologies.
Second, wellbeing – unlike GDP – is boosted more by increases in income among the poorer segments of the population than by increases among the wealthy.
This spending consumes a large proportion of poorer households’ income, precludes more productive household investments, creates few jobs, and often remains untaxed, as doctors and hospitals are frequently paid under the counter.
With technological breakthroughs in electronic communication and increasing bandwidth, many jobs that were done in industrialized nations, but that did not require face-to-face interaction, can now be moved to poorer countries, which have cheap labor, an educated workforce, and high rates of computer literacy.
But the surplus merely masks the structural problems of China’s domestic economic sectors and poorer regions.
India, considerably poorer on average than China, will also close the wealth gap.
That is why all rich countries are democracies, and it is why some countries, like my own (Venezuela), are becoming poorer.
Now, as then, richer developed countries are able to put pressure on weaker, poorer ones.
In all the Indian protests about the terrible blow dealt by the Americans to Indian self-esteem, only a few mentioned the habitual exploitation of the poorer classes.
If we cut back on aid, we will fail to keep our promise, and poorer countries will learn, once again, that rich countries’ actions fall short of their inspiring rhetoric about reducing world poverty.
But, though the Venetians’ desire to secede from the poorer South might sound familiar to other regions in Europe where taxpayers feel aggrieved at subsidizing other, allegedly feckless, regions, the politics of secession can be taken to absurd extremes.
The average citizen has grown poorer, even as those close to the junta become ostentatiously rich.
Much of the rural south is poorer and less educated than other parts of the US.
Few places on earth are poorer and more destitute than southern Sudan.
That is more wealth than is owned by the poorer half of the world’s 7.4 billion people.
But many commentators believe that they were protesting against what they perceived as the precipitate admission of ten new member states, mainly much poorer countries from Central and Eastern Europe.
In practice, this has meant large flows of money either to big agricultural producers, like France, or to poorer member states, like Greece and Portugal.
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