Charity is no longer charity: it is applying capitalism to make the poor rich.
The poor rich people in Guernsey have been beset by power outages and road closures to fix downed cables due to wet and wintry weather.
And the poor are indeed getting rich. and it is those very factories, that very offshoring of manufacturing, which has enabled the poor to get rich.
Imagine a society that has a bell-shaped income distribution curve with a broad middle class, a smaller number of rich and poor, and an even smaller number of super rich and super poor.
The city is a mix of the poor and rich, of slums and luxury hotels.
As they went from poor to rich they too would be wired up to landline networks.
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According to Nobelist Douglas North, the main difference between poor and rich nations is not growth rates.
The poor in rich countries often consume more than they earn, because they receive welfare benefits and use public services.
But setbacks in making the shift from poor to rich are inevitable.
Any self-respecting bank bull likes to whip out a chart comparing the ratio of bank loans with GDP in poor and rich countries.
And, most patriarchal though it may sound, almost misogynistic, one way for the poorer to make the leap from poor to rich is by marrying up.
Whether poor, rich or somewhere in-between, China will certainly need to spend some money to provide a basic social safety net for its people, not just the old but everyone.
One small step in the right direction would be to adopt a supplementary MDG commitment to halve by 2015 the gap between poor and rich when it comes child survival and school attendance.
Just as the workers at Exxon would be poor not rich by global standards i9f they had a low value add: for they would have the low wages to go along with the low productivity.
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They are what you get when you plot data for poor and rich countries together at a given moment in time, but actual levels of various pollutants in any individual country plotted over time wiggle around a lot more.
The conflict is usually described as pitting indigenous Bolivians in the uplands against descendants of Spain in the lowlands, or poor versus rich, but in fact Santa Cruz is ethnically mixed and average incomes in the two cities are comparable.
The lack of technological knowledge is the reason for the wide disparity between the rich and the poor nations today, because the rich nations are getting richer much faster than the poor nations due to investment in technological knowledge, the gap will continue to widen.
If it were easy to become rich we all would be, but as the rich and poor alike know intimately, getting rich is surely glorious, but also very difficult.
Hooked on wealth redistribution they have taken taxing the rich to subsidise the poor to the next level, taxing the rich European countries to subsidise the poor less well governed euro-countries.
Republicans have been politically hampered in their arguments against raising taxes on the rich, providing no effective push back to this pitting of poor against the rich for political gain.
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Some who are rich become poor and some in the middle class become rich.
The road is open, and let us keep it open between the poor and the rich.
Poor kids and rich kids would be more likely to meet each other on the playground.
Global inequality is indeed falling and as we can see the formerly poor are getting rich.
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Compared with the poor and the rich, the middle class contains a greater range of interests.
There has been relatively little movement from poor country to rich country over the last 40-plus years.
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But they tend to fall more heavily on the poor than the rich.
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For we can see that the poor are getting rich: so how is that either exploitation or a race to the bottom?
Welcome to the country on the roof of the world and warmest greetings from the materially poor but spiritually rich people of Nepal!
The starving move to three squares a day, the naked can buy clothes, the homeless gain shelter as a result of the poor world getting rich.
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