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This figure is far higher than levels of protection in even the wealthiest countries that harbor significant coral reefs, the US and Australia, where current levels of protection are less than 5%.
The world’s six wealthiest countries – the US, China, Japan, Germany, France, and the UK – account for 60% of global GDP, but they hosted fewer than 9% of all refugees last year.
If their own societies’ wealthiest members are also becoming richer, conditions become ripe for anti-establishment rebellion.
In particular, the administration pushed through a tax cut that largely failed to stimulate the economy, because it was designed to benefit mainly the wealthiest taxpayers.
A large burden has been placed on those who actually pay their taxes, while many – often the wealthiest, who long ago stashed their money abroad – continue to evade their obligations.
As it stands, large parts of UK agriculture are locked into the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which is accused of driving the sector toward larger, more industrial, and more environmentally damaging practices, including by failing to support farm diversity and directing payments to Britain’s wealthiest landowners.
Assertions by Republican Party leaders that excessive social support is the primary culprit – a favorite theme of vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan – are just as mistaken as Democratic Party leaders’ claim that permitting tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to expire at the end of this year would cure all.
Finally, US leaders should allow the Bush tax cuts to expire and phase out tax loopholes that largely benefit the wealthiest.
Even in South Africa, the wealthiest country on the continent, millions of people lack basics.
Before this century is over, we should seek to enable all the world’s people – probably more than ten billion by then – to achieve the standards of living currently enjoyed only by the wealthiest 10%.
According to Forbes magazine , he is the second wealthiest person in the world, after Bill Gates, with assets of $42 billion.
Raising tax rates for the wealthiest citizens in developing a more progressive income tax framework would bolster this progress.
In 2003, Russia’s wealthiest oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky – a vocal advocate of democratization and tireless critic of Putin – was imprisoned on trumped-up charges of fraud and tax evasion, and his Yukos Oil Company was driven to bankruptcy, broken up, and sold off to Kremlin cronies.
This trend is expected to persist, with the next generation of doctors likely to be born into families that rank among the wealthiest 20% of the population.
But Japan’s wealthiest people, such as entrepreneurs, medical doctors, and lawyers, are nowadays less willing or financially able to continue patronizing the sport, particularly since the collapse of Japan’s asset bubble in the early 1990’s.
Of course, Aspen is one of the country’s wealthiest communities, and perhaps not representative of the US as a whole.
The world’s wealthiest countries endorsed the idea of an international study to examine the economic benefits of conserving the world’s wildlife.
The TTIP’s goal is to unleash the power of the transatlantic economy, which remains by far the world’s largest and wealthiest market, accounting for three-quarters of global financial activity and more than half of world trade.
But fiscal pressures in many of the wealthiest countries have resulted in a 6% decline in ODA since 2010 (in real terms), despite the emergence of new government donors and large private foundations.
That is how many of the world’s wealthiest people own as much as the poorest 3.6 billion, down from 388 people in 2010.
But this is an expensive solution, one that only the wealthiest cities can afford.
Then, in 2013, he reportedly married Putin’s daughter, Katerina Tikhonova, in a secret ceremony, after which Putin’s wealthiest crony, Gennady Timchenko, sold him 17% of Sibur at a favorable price.
And the wealthiest young people tend to have wealthy parents and to have received larger wealth transfers than their poorer counterparts.
And, for the wealthiest 1%, the ratio fell sharply, from 23% in 1989 to 11% in 2010.
Moreover, the share of estates dedicated to charitable bequests has risen over time, particularly among the wealthiest group.
(And the Bush administration’s tax cuts for the wealthiest, unfunded Medicare prescription benefit, and debt-financed wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have severely weakened the long-term fiscal outlook.)
During this period of “high globalization,” the two segments of the world making gains were the wealthiest 1% in rich and poor countries and the middle class in a few Asian countries – namely China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
It is heartening that at least some of America’s wealthiest individuals are honest enough to recognize the unfairness of the system, even though they have done well by it.
In this scenario, it wouldn’t matter how much money you give to the poorest half of the population: the price of the drug would keep rising to the point where only the wealthiest half the population could afford it.
As a result, they did not generally recognize rising inequality, particularly in the US, as a major problem until recently (though, to be sure, many of the wealthiest elites have engaged in an unprecedented amount of philanthropy).
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