It has happened because rich-world companies have replaced workers with new technology to boost productivity and shifted production from labour-intensive products such as textiles to higher-tech, higher value-added, sectors such as pharmaceuticals.

ECONOMIST: Economics

Changing technology and competition from emerging economies has reduced demand for low-skilled workers in rich countries.

ECONOMIST: Wirtschaftsblunder

Technology, and in particular, the Internet has long been the best bet for getting rich at a young age.

FORBES: Valuations

He did not say who would pay for a technology which increases the cost of power generation so much that it has still not been adopted in rich nations which have caused the climate problem.

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