The levels of poverty and inequality in a world rich in knowledge, technology and capital is the biggest moral issue the world faces and the biggest threat to the safety and security of the world.

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"This is a place with a vast amount of local knowledge and a rich history, " says Kalluk.

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The problem, and this explains your firing, is that your musings reveal a shocking lack of knowledge about how rich and poor economies work, the purpose of currencies, and the role of comparative advantage in lifting all economic boats.

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Dr Fogarty says such rich diversity is a repository of thousands of years ecological, spiritual and social knowledge built up by generations of Australia's first peoples.

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Sao Paulo's inhabitants suffer from a high degree of urban paranoia stemming from the knowledge of the huge gap between rich and poor in Brazil, and the underclass that this creates.

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One credit officer in a Chinese bank says that far more important than any aggregate statistic is lenders' intimate knowledge of the thick, extraordinarily rich, slice of buyers who can weather a downturn.

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