The funding is intended to stimulate the economy and raise wealth levels in the least well-off parts of the European Union (EU).
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Technology has created and revitalized huge sectors of the economy, adding wealth and retooling industries like telecommunications, video gaming, music and media.
Furthermore, oil-dependent governments, facing a population boom and realizing that they need to diversify their economy to create jobs and wealth, are subsidizing the industrial sector to manufacture plastics, chemicals and aluminum, all energy-intensive goods.
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And we cannot build the clean economy, full of jobs and wealth creating opportunities, if our political leaders remain beholden to big oil.
The key to judging an economy's health is not its trade numbers--which, by the way, ignore critical flows of capital in and out of a country--but whether the economy is innovating and creating new wealth.
It says that the way to juice the economy, grow wealth and stimulate demand is to first get producers to produce.
Many have made money in China's emerging capitalist economy and are status-conscious and keen to enjoy their wealth.
Ronen Palan, a professor of international political economy and an expert on offshore wealth and tax havens at City University in London, believes that while Switzerland is "clearly suffering" from the pressure put on its private-wealth sector from the European Union and the U.S., Singapore is a "very secretive location" where many Asians in particular believe their wealth will be spared scrutiny from Western regulators.
The only way to truly succeed over time is to use your head, think out long-term trends, figure out where productivity exists (and therefore wealth is being created) in the economy, and invest your mind or your money alongside it.
It has a young and growing population, a stalled economy with chronic high unemployment, inequitable wealth distribution, poor local and regional governance, and corruption.
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Yes, I realize one may argue that the stock market is not an accurate measure of the economy but the wealth effect is powerful and a rising stock market has definitely improved the general mood of the investing public thereby allowing them to put some of their new found savings to work.
San Francisco has felt the effects of the Internet boom sooner and more intensely than almost anywhere else, but the wealth that the new economy has created is steadily fanning out and may generate the same tensions elsewhere.
But then we decided as a nation we were putting to much wealth redistribution into our economy, and we started to remove it.
In a vibrant, competitive manufacturing economy, wealth tends to accrue to innovators and efficient operators, and someone with a new idea or better way of doing things has a chance to get to the top.
Mr Edwards proposes an "economic fairness bill" that would "rebalance the economy away from a concentration of wealth in London and the South East" .
All someone had to do, in order to get a fair share of the wealth of our economy, was study and learn a valuable skill, and then work all day long.
Or was it a cyclical event that was inevitable after an unprecedentedly long period of almost unbroken prosperity and increasing wealth that led almost everyone to think we had learned to manage the economy so that serious recessions and Depressions could never happen again?
Huge amounts of wealth have been sucked out of the economy and into the hands of a few.
Now, there will be three different mega-places for income and wealth generation the traditional taxable economy, the informal shadow economy, and the virtual world economy.
As I said a couple of weeks ago, so far investors have accepted Quantitative Easing because of the unparalleled wealth, stability and size of our economy.
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He believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs.
Because all these policies misunderstand the fundamental nature of wealth, and thus of the modern American economy.
It will also depress household wealth and impact the growth rate of the US economy in a negative fashion.
Indeed, the federal role in liberalizing the American economy so that others can foster scientific wealth is the very essence and responsibility of governing.
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In the larger economy, fortunately, much wealth is created by those who invent and sell products and services that do a lot more to advance the human race than do those who are known for being known.
So integral to the British economy was the slave business that there were few men and institutions of wealth who did not want to invest in it, from the royal family and the Church of England downwards.
GDP and the city's big black economy means its share of national wealth is probably higher still.
Wealth is created by profitable enterprise and in a global economy, to attract capital, America must welcome investors.
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He'd do more for the economy if he dropped the ideological illusions and embraced the job-creating, wealth-producing reality of domestic fossil fuels.
We want the fruits of globalisation: the variety of goods and services, the investment and employment opportunities, the astounding additional wealth that the global economy thumps out each year.
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