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Many of Ukraine’s richest citizens, who gained their wealth through the crony capitalism that is the only way Yanukovych knows how to govern, remain unreconciled to Ukraine’s democracy.
Incredibly, the actions of the richest countries – which promised solidarity with the world’s poorest people at the G-8 Summit in July – have intensified the hunger crisis.
North America shares one of the richest and most varied energy resource pools in the world.
The Bosman ruling, named after a Belgian player who successfully challenged the rule’s application to players from other European Union countries, eroded the limit, which collapsed altogether under the onslaught of the richest European clubs’ demand for a free hand in hiring the best players, wherever they might be found.
The reason for this concentration at the top is obvious: the richest clubs are now able to attract the best players in the world.
If doctors, computer specialists, or engineers (let alone the proverbial Polish plumbers!) were allowed to move freely, the concentration of talent in the richest countries would most likely increase.
More Chinese will be featured in annual lists of the world’s richest people.
Among the richest households, the probability of being drafted is only 3%; among the poorest, it is 20%.
The Marange diamond field, discovered in 2006, is one of the richest ever found.
Meanwhile, Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are trying to rush through legislation that would deprive more than 20 million people of health care, in order to cut taxes for the richest Americans.
It is one of the richest continents on the planet, endowed with oil, precious stones, forests, water, wildlife, soil, land, agricultural products, and millions of women and men.
As of the mid-1980’s, there were more than 300,000 cases of polio per year worldwide, despite the disease’s virtual elimination in the richest countries, where vaccination was routine.
Neither the best-armed government nor the richest can long survive unless broad sections of their population accept its rule as legitimate.
In an effort to win a Democratic senator’s vote for his pending tax-cut bill, he traveled to her state and told lies about her record (though the tax bill was so tilted to the richest 1% of Americans that no Democratic senator voted for it).
On the contrary, the global economy is leaving vast numbers of people behind, including in the richest countries, while planet Earth itself is under unprecedented threat, owing to human-caused climate change, pollution, water depletion, and the extinction of countless species.
Simply put, health costs are bankrupting some of the poorest people in the world, because many of the richest are lining their pockets.
The richest countries caused the problem, but it is the world’s poorest who are already suffering from its effects.
On the contrary, over a surprisingly short span of time the Irish proved how a small and determined country could use European integration to rise to the status of one ofEurope’s richest countries in terms of per capita purchasing power.
At a press conference just hours after my car exploded, I announced my suspicion that the explosion had been organized by Gagik Tsarukyan, an MP nicknamed “Dodi Gago” (“dod” means stupid in Armenian) and one of the country’s richest men and a close friend of the president’s family.
Entry barriers among the world’s ten richest people and ten most valuable companies seem to be far lower than among the top ten economists.
At a time when global science is more dynamic than ever; when the richest countries are experiencing a boom in wealth unrivaled in history (including around $8 trillion in stock market gains in the United States in the past four years!), the world yearns for more effective approaches to the struggle against poverty.
In these countries, only 14% of health and education spending benefits the poorest 20% of the population, while 30% of the spending goes to the richest 20%.
Instead of promising more tax breaks for the richest citizens, a more equitable fiscal policy could pay for necessary bridges and other public goods and services that would improve everyone’s life.
But Howard Hughes’s success as a film producer and airline owner made him one of the richest Americans to emerge during the first half of the twentieth century.
Likewise, John Paul Getty, the US-born industrialist who was the world’s richest person during his time, was so obsessively frugal and paranoid that, when his grandson was kidnapped, he negotiated down the ransom demand, even after the kidnappers sent him a lock of his grandson’s hair and one of his ears.
And when members of the international community cannot contain the epidemic, the richest and most powerful actor, namely the US, has an obligation to step in and try to do so.
But he was not popular because the public viewed him as a puppet of China and a crony of big developers, particularly Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong’s richest person.
In the end, it may be the oligarchs who have bankrolled Yanukovych’s career – particularly Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man – who will make the ultimate decision about Ukraine’s fate.
Why should the richest country in the world live beyond its means while the IMF scolds poorer countries for smaller transgressions?
When the Chinese premier, OPEC heads of state, and the world’s richest supermodel all express concern about the dollar, you can be sure we are in for a bumpy ride.
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