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Some deride the Kingdom, the richest Arab state, for taking action against the poorest.
Sounding the alarm on inequality, the Bank of Italy calculates that the combined wealth of the ten richest Italians equals that of three million of their poorest countrymen.
History can be made in Madrid at the end of January, when the world’s richest and poorest countries converge to seek solutions to the global hunger crisis.
Remittances by emigrants offer one of the richest.
Russia's New Anti-Oligarch WarMoscow's sleepy political summer has been stirred by a Kremlin attack, initiated by President Vladimir Putin's closest aides, on Russia's leading oligarch and the country's richest man--Michael Khodorkovsky, the principal shareholder of the oil company Yukos.
One clue as to why they attacked Russia's richest man is the fact that Khodorkovsky is the first oligarch to help the country's liberal parties as opposed to the ruling party of power, to support independent mass media, and to provide money to lawyers and legal assistants.
People in fear for their lives run to the nearest safe place, not the richest.
The Gospel According to GatesBill Gates and Warren Buffett, the richest and second richest person in America, and perhaps the world, are often described as admirers of Andrew Carnegie’s famous 1889 essay “The Gospel of Wealth.”
As a result, in one of the world's richest countries, unemployment is rising.
American society has become increasingly harsh, where the richest Americans buy their way to political power, and the poor are abandoned to their fate.
The gap between the richest and the poorest countries is the narrowest it’s ever been.
Norway, for example, is not just one of the world’s richest countries; it is also the seventh-largest exporter of carbon dioxide emissions, and it continues to permit exploration and development of new oil and gas fields.
For many years at the cusp of the new century, India’s richest man (the information-technology czar Azim Premji) was a Muslim.
If so, the richest parts of any country could decide to go it alone, thus impoverishing their fellow citizens.
His starting point is the huge rise in wealth among the world’s richest 0.1% and 0.01% and the consequent pressure for people, governments, and companies to take on increasingly unsustainable levels of debt.
This is similar to – albeit more “total” than – Putin’s own understanding of the relationship between capitalists and the state, according to which even the richest Russian oligarch is essentially a serf of the state.
But because the US is the richest, most powerful country in the world, its neglect is devastating.
(Mexican telephone magnate Carlos Slim, for example, is a close competitor to Gates for the title of the world’s richest man.)
Savable AfricaThe G-8 Summit in Scotland in early July will bring together the political leaders of the richest countries to consider the plight of the poorest countries.
For example, in 2010, South Africa’s richest 10% accounted for 53% of total consumer spending.
Compare this to Brazil in 2000, when the richest 10% of Brazilians accounted for 47% of total household spending.
When Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776, per capita income in the world’s richest country – probably the Netherlands – was about four times that of the poorest countries.
And that’s not all: 40% of the gains of quantitative easing in the United Kingdom have gone to the richest 5% of households, not because they were more productive, but because the Bank of England directed its cash toward them.
Under his plan, the wealthy would experience the biggest hikes, with the marginal tax rate on the richest Americans reaching 54.2%.
It is likely no coincidence that the one thing all of the presidential candidates’ proposals have in common is the elimination of privileges for the richest taxpayers.
Similarly, Sanders and his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, favor effectively doing away with differential treatment of capital gains – a major reason why the richest Americans often enjoy lower rates.
The world’s richest person is from Mexico.
Assad would remain in power in the richest part of the country, with bitter sectarian fury reigning in the country’s eastern hinterland.
Almost one-quarter of the coral in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area – one of the world’s richest and most complex ecosystems – has died this year, in the worst mass coral bleaching in recorded history.
They have recovered well: whereas the world’s richest 1% of households owned 42.5% of all wealth in 2008, they own 50.1% today.
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