Why, she wonders, is this juxtaposition of wealth and poverty considered a moral problem and not a practical one?
Median figures strip out the extremes of wealth and poverty, and are a better reflection of a typical, middle-class household.
Once in Naples, Caravaggio fitted in like a native, embracing the metropolis that was three times the size of Rome, riven by extremes of wealth and poverty, light and dark, palazzi and shantytowns.
Gilder (a friend and mentor) also restates a defining, contrarian, and still-too-little-understood theme of the original Wealth and Poverty.
Yet the combination of rising mineral wealth and continuing poverty is explosive.
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Just changing the way business is done, if only by a few companies, can change the flow of wealth, ease and eliminate poverty, and leave us all with something better to worry about.
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Just as the primitive man was confused by and fearful of storms and earthquakes and drought and disease, progressives are befuddled by the rise and fall of industries, booms and recessions, wealth and poverty.
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Only the creation of wealth can truly overcome poverty and this depends on individual effort.
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The profusion of wars in Africa is often ascribed to the continent's unique combination of widespread poverty and great natural wealth.
The state is also in charge of national planning, eradication of poverty, and making sure that national wealth is distributed in an even manner among its citizens.
Within the past thirty years, free market reforms have brought an unprecedented explosion of global wealth creation and have lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in nations from India, China, Brazil, central and Eastern Europe, as well as Latin America and Africa.
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The great social questions of the 19th century, including wealth and poverty, prostitution, childhood mortality and philanthropy, will also be examined.
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That history helps explain the wealth and income gap between blacks and whites, and the concentrated pockets of poverty that persist in so many of today's urban and rural communities.
Afro-Uruguayans are among dis-advantaged groups in the country with access to cultural wealth hindered by poverty and lack of infrastructure.
But all the while the usual disparities of wealth persisted--nearly 40% of Ecuador's population live in poverty--and the charismatic Correa marshaled a political force to exploit this.
There may be other factors as well: overall poverty, disparity of wealth, the presence and proportion of and relationships among various ethnic groups, and perhaps some measure of social stability like church attendance.
With good reason, of course: The more Americans fear poverty and sock away wealth, the more money they pay to Wall Street.
Despite its vast mineral wealth, decades of conflict and mismanagement mean most Congolese remain stuck in poverty.
Dr Williams went on to acknowledge that "loosening up a financial regime" was sometimes needed to foster enterprise and create wealth to "draw whole populations out of poverty".
"He will be able to better understand the Latin American continent, not only the poverty and the exclusion, but also the wealth of these lands, " he said.
Through their own ingenuity, access to capital and often oligopolistic hold on lucrative markets, they have enjoyed one of the greatest accumulations of wealth in recent economic history, even amidst generally declining earnings, rising poverty and inequality among their fellow Americans.
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If the African-American community also sees the power of the ballot to overcome other historical obstacles such as entrenched poverty, widening wealth, education gaps and safer streets where it's not as easy for a criminal to get a gun as it is to buy a cigarette, then this expansion of its voting power will be a more permanent fixture on the political scene.
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