Yet these organisations remain firmly in the hands of the old rich economies.
When their money runs out, you tap a few angel investors--old rich guys with too much time on their hands.
This is because its main objective is to assess the impact of the faster-growing developing world on the old rich world.
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There is a growing recognition that the old rich world cannot take its prosperity for granted that it will be overtaken by hungrier powers if it fails to deal with its structural problems.
Look at this crowd here today: black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, young, old, rich, poor.
Like many other Members of Parliament, he came from an old, rich, landed gentry family.
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"Other countries are old and rich, " said Albert Park, a professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and another survey leader.
Pollsters say he is popular all over Indonesia, with both young and old, rich and poor, men and women, and city and country folk.
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We have seen young and old, rich and poor, Muslim and Christian join together, and earn the respect of the world through their non-violent calls for change.
They are young and old, rich and poor and even, many of them, members of the much-vaunted middle-class that both Romney and President Obama repeatedly vowed to protect.
Obama was buoyed up on a groundswell of small donors, young and old, rich and poor -- people who wished to see a country restored and an economy rebuilt.
Mr Susilo, promising decisive action against corruption and the chaos in Indonesia's judicial system, has built himself an image of calm, competence and honesty which, say pollsters, has won him support from young and old, rich and poor, and city and country folk.
Since 1971 the life expectancy of the average 65-year-old in the rich world has improved by four to five years.
As the Nordic countries' identities change, will they be able to hold on to their old tolerant, rich and happy dream?
Michael Nyqvist plays a slightly boring journalist named Blomkvist, who is hired by a rich old man (Sven-Bertil Taube) to probe the disappearance of a teen-age girl, forty years before.
In an upper-class suburb of Sydney, in 1972, Elizabeth Hunter (Charlotte Rampling), an intelligent, vicious, rich old woman, very ill but never without awareness of her power, wills herself not to die.
Lawyers, accountants, management consultants and other professional-services grunts are drawn to London partly for the same reasons financial-services firms cluster there the global ubiquity of English and a time zone midway between the rich old world and emerging Asia.
Dr Kitzhaber speaks eloquently about extending this basic point beyond his Medicaid reforms, into areas for which Washington is responsible: he has useful ideas about rationing in Medicare, starting with the sound notion that rich old folks need not be subsidised.
And yet somehow despite all the obvious pitfalls with true love between an impoverished teenaged human girl and a century old and super rich vampire man, their marriage as soon as she graduates from high school, her life-ending (and vampire beginning) pregnancy, people around the world have paid money in record numbers to see Breaking Dawn Part 2.
What we do know is that the 66-year-old entrepreneur is extremely rich, is a devout Christian and is politically very conservative.
It is thrilling to imagine them delivering insight and inspiration to knowledge-seekers old and young, rich and poor, in every corner of the planet.
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Clapton fans who want his blistering guitar work will have to revisit his back catalog, but his playing on "Old Sock, " rich with tasty little asides, is impeccable.
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He met and married his first wife and longtime collaborator, Ileana Schapira, the 17-year-old daughter of a rich industrialist, when he went to work in Bucharest in 1932.
Such things are old news in other rich countries.
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"Video slot machines are the future, " admits Charles Mathewson, chairman and chief executive of IGT, whose company got rich off of old-fashioned reel slots.
Today, the Internet provides universal access to books and lectures and a fluid social network that lets any 19-year-old with an idea find rich investors or flash a resume to potential employers.
At the same time they disdain the idle rich produced by old wealth, such as the European aristocracy and the drifting trust-fund kids descended from the East Coast tycoons of the early 20th century.
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Is it fair that young people trying to save for their own futures, and with obligations as parents, should be sacrificing an ever larger amount of current income to support rich benefits to old people?
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