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But if they believe that, say, the Chinese are becoming wealthier, while their own real (inflation-adjusted) wages remain largely stagnant, they will not accept globalization.
The EU’s Eastern European members initially resisted taking their share of the 120,000; but, dependent on fiscal transfers from the EU’s wealthier members, they fell into line after diplomatic arm-twisting similar to that administered to Greece.
At the same time, tax laws have been revised to make investors wealthier in the near term, discouraging long-term investment in research.
When women have access to the full range of digital services – from mobile banking to telemedicine – they are generally wealthier, healthier, and better educated.
Meanwhile, instability in emerging economies leads their wealthier citizens to try to rescue as much capital as possible, driving a surge in real-estate prices in global safe havens like New York, London, and Geneva.
John Maynard Keynes prophesied in the 1920’s that as countries grew wealthier, people’s preoccupation with money and possessions would diminish.
In fact, it was this rationale that drove the Soviet Union’s massive nuclear buildup: Soviet leaders, recognizing that they could not compete with the much wealthier United States’ conventional weapons, focused their country’s limited resources on creating a potentially devastating nuclear arsenal.
Mutualizing the risks of protecting the world’s poor is not only financially feasible for wealthier countries; it is also incumbent upon them in fulfilling their international obligations, including human-rights commitments.
A study in Europe asking whether prosperity enhanced quality of life found that, “Europeans’ life-quality is better in wealthier societies.”
That means they can grow more rapidly than wealthier economies, until their per capita income catches up.
Those who act first will be the wiser – and wealthier – for it.
Meanwhile, Mexico’s and Turkey’s levels of wealth haven’t come anywhere near that of South Korea, and yet they are considerably wealthier than the rest of the N-11, some of which remain among the poorest countries in the world.
Given that eurozone countries have lost the capacity to devalue their currency in order to regain competitiveness, any country that cannot compete must rely on assistance from wealthier states.
Many wealthier countries have followed this path.
That is why the Education Commission calls for a financing compact between developing countries and the international community, whereby wealthier countries offer increased finance and guidance to developing countries that commit to educational reform and investment.
And everyone’s spending patterns differ – the older, wealthier household buys jewelry from Tiffany, rather than a car from General Motors.
Workers’ disillusionment is deepened by the knowledge that, as their average wages grow slowly or stagnate, the very wealthy are growing significantly wealthier.
Putin’s intergenerational cronyism has made the oligarchs and their families ever wealthier.
At first blush, this statement may seem counter-intuitive – not least because wealthier households receive larger wealth transfers than poorer ones.
Poorer emerging-market countries would resist such a move, arguing that their citizens should not have to foot the bill for fiscal profligacy in much wealthier countries.
With time, the incentive effects would progressively weaken, and the structural lift to employment would disappear, as workers and managers grew wealthier in response to their higher after-tax wages.
In each case, it is expected that a well-financed relief effort will descend from a wealthier region.
And as Americans have grown wealthier, they have been willing to spend more on safety.
But if we are to have a system where nearly everybody can become better off, the wealthy cannot become ever wealthier at the same time.
This “investment” by wealthier countries should pay off if it leads to more flexible labor markets and higher productivity in the recipient countries.
Indeed, given that Kenya’s lawmakers are some of the world’s highest-paid politicians, earning many times the salary of counterparts in much wealthier countries, they are willing to do anything – even incite violence – to be elected.
Given increasing evidence that the system is performing much better for wealthier citizens than for poorer ones, America’s soft power seems bound to erode substantially.
All that is needed is for wealthier countries to provide budgetary support and technical assistance to the low-income countries that need it.
In marked contrast to far wealthier nations, it has offered a haven and provided refugees with land, seeds, and tools so they can rebuild their livelihoods.
In just a single decade, the EU managed to bring poorer, peripheral member states--Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Ireland--from 50% to 90% of the EU average in per capita income, creating a bigger market for companies from wealthier northern countries, and stemming migration from poorer southern economies.
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