Brazil is resource rich, while China remains a big importer of raw materials and on balance is resource poor.
But a country's trade balance is a poor gauge of economic strength.
Tax rebates are one way governments might be able to break the cycle that leaves us with too many jobs having too poor design for work-life balance.
Other states, some of them no less poor, have woken up to the crucial balance between people and jobs and the advantages that accrue from emancipating women through education and family planning.
Despite their poor earnings, the major insurers strengthened their balance sheets, further penetrated the Asian markets, shopped for acquisitions with a loonie at par, and reported strong sales across most of the board.
There were fewer terrorist attacks, they say, but the balance of costs and benefits is still poor between five and eight cents of benefit for every dollar spent.
The OECD and IMF have both warned of the need for a credible plan to bring the budget into balance, and ratings agency Standard and Poor's has said it is putting Britain's AAA credit rating on review until such a plan emerges.
So President Obama is quite wrong when he says that Ryan would balance the budget on the backs of the poor, and is abusing the debate rather than participating in it.
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His hold on the job was in the balance at the start of 2007, after some poor results, but his stock has soared recently and several media sources have named him as a potential candidate for the post of Australia coach.
But with 2, 000 verses on the poor in the Bible, the so-called prosperity gospel is way out of balance.
Donor countries, such as Britain, have welcomed the commission and its clarion call for greater investment in poor-country health, although they are now left with the tricky task of trying to balance this against commitments to education, enterprise capital and other more traditional aid projects.
With massive balance sheets and shareholders with the patience of Job, some may persevere through several years of poor returns in their hunger to conquer Manhattan.
But even states that appear to be gaining jobs on balance need to remember that these benefits are gained at the expense of poorer health among the near-poor who will be forced away from private coverage through exchanges onto the rolls of Medicaid.
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