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Indeed, the government repeatedly pushed the economy into what were thought to be the industries of the future, resulting in economic expansion and a larger, wealthier middle class.
Ultimately, the evidence suggests that societies spend ever-larger fractions of their income on health over time, in contrast to food expenditures, for example, which fall as countries become wealthier.
So, unless we adopt the view that those without ample savings who fall seriously ill should quickly die (and so decrease the surplus population), a country with national health insurance will be a wealthier and more successful country.
Given that children from wealthier households are more likely to pursue higher education, directing limited public resources, including tax revenues, toward reducing its cost amounts to a subsidy for the wealthy, at the expense of the poor.
This goal may seem to be beyond even wealthier countries’ means; but the intelligent collection, analysis, and use of educational data could make a big difference.
While these new jobs did not require significant upgrading of skills, they employed higher levels of embedded technology, imported from wealthier countries and adapted to local conditions.
Just 5% of its loan portfolio is directed to the sector – and most of that goes to a handful of wealthier middle-income countries.
Every shred of evidence we've accumulated over the past 30 years of academic and policy research, all the experience of our development efforts, confirm what our pioneering ancestors knew innately: education for all our children--poor, rich, white, black, boys, girls--means healthier babies, stronger families, wealthier economies, and more vibrant democracies.
As world leaders, we are morally bound to ensure that solutions to the global financial crisis protect their interests, not just the citizens of wealthier nations.
Whereas Chinese companies used to focus on designing products that were “good enough” – not quite matching the standard of Western products, but offering huge cost savings – they are now out to create products that are cheaper and better, in order to satisfy wealthier consumers.
Wealthier people have a higher marginal propensity to save than poorer people.
This seemed to be an ethically acceptable price to pay, because those who were losing were already so much wealthier (and healthier) than those who were gaining.
I explained how the winning formula for developing countries is to build up the same tradable industries that have been growing for decades in wealthier countries that have endowment structures similar to their own.
For poor regions, investment in equipment and training would have to come from wealthier counterparts.
Farmers in wealthier countries will experience changes, too.
As voters become wealthier, more have the luxury of focusing on other issues.
For example, we often hear about the need to restructure the economies of poor countries, about wealthier nations being duty-bound to help in this.
Due to their greater access to argan fruit markets, households in wealthier, low forest density regions sell relatively more fruit, illustrating how factors such as market structure determine which villages benefit.
Granted, many studies have confirmed that wealthier nations tend to be happier than poor ones, and that rich people are generally more satisfied than their less affluent fellow citizens.
Threats to the wealthier Persian Gulf states, in particular, are exaggerated.
It is substantially wealthier than its Sub-Saharan peers, and it boasts nearly $400 billion in international reserves.
As ordinary citizens have watched the wealthy get wealthier – often aided, directly or indirectly, by corrupt governments – they have become increasingly frustrated.
More trade makes both sides of a transaction wealthier.
Indeed, life expectancy at birth often varies by 5-10 years, depending on social and economic well-being, with poorer people spending 10-20 more years of life suffering from illness or disability than their wealthier counterparts.
The hope has been that more buoyant market valuations would boost consumption (via the “wealth effect,” whereby asset-owning households feel wealthier and thus more inclined to spend) and investment (via “animal spirits,” which bolster entrepreneurs’ willingness to invest in new plant, equipment, and hiring).
Americans and Europeans are beginning to understand that neither they, nor their children, can assume that they will become wealthier over time.
It is irrelevant that the provincials’ political leaders (and their backers) are sometimes wealthier than the resented metropolitan elites.
Austria, far wealthier, was not.
In both cases, increases in asset values led US households to think that they had become vastly wealthier, tempting them into a massive increase in their borrowing and spending – for houses, automobiles, and other consumer durables.
That is why the world’s wealthier economies, those with the most productive market systems, also have large public sectors.
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