Once all the spare labour was used up and capital employed per worker reached rich-country levels, he argued, Asia's growth would slump.
Ambassador Dr. Nassif Hitti, Permanent Observer of the League of Arab States to UNESCO, recalled the long and deep history of dialogue between the European and Arab regions and their societies, featuring rich exchanges at all levels.
In general, they find that cross-border marriages are rising in most places, but the most significant fact is the big difference between levels in rich and developing ones.
Interestingly, unemployment is a category where rich countries, with their high levels of wage insurance and stronger worker protections, tend to experience larger problems after financial crises than do emerging markets.
The chart shows employment levels in the mostly rich OECD countries among the oldest section of the workforce (55-64) and the youngest (15-24).
Optimists argue that low living standards, coupled with high education levels and proximity to rich markets, mean potential for continued rapid growth of the kind seen until the financial crisis.
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Throughout the rich world, profits have surged to record levels as a share of national income, while the workers' slice has fallen.
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These entrepreneurs built up vast fortunes using stock options with great savvy and then, after they made it to the levels of the super-rich, simply got rid of their ordinary income salaries.
In the real world inheritances strongly influence income levels, particularly among the very rich.
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Mr Clegg argued that life chances could not be evened out simply by reducing inequality, pointing to Australia and Canada as examples of countries with a similar gap between the rich and the poor as the UK but much better levels of social mobility.
Although unemployment levels may remain among the lowest in the rich world, many of the jobs will be lowly ones.
But the Ipsos study shows the highest levels of self-reported happiness not in rich countries, as one would expect, but in poor and middle-income ones, notably Indonesia, India and Mexico.
The levels of poverty and inequality in a world rich in knowledge, technology and capital is the biggest moral issue the world faces and the biggest threat to the safety and security of the world.
Protein rich foods will give you longer-lasting boosts to the glucose levels in your brain.
Although absolute levels of poverty have dipped, the gulf between rich and poor is still widening.
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.
As they do, they can make better programming judgments as well as direct those in contributor support in their efforts to build out and develop rich content packages for consumers, particularly those promoted at the highest levels of Forbes or gaining traction on Facebook or Twitter or wherever.
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But mostly it is because fertility levels are dropping sharply in most poor countries and all rich ones.
At those sorts of levels of overall economic damage, the impact on the rich world as well as the poor world is huge.
While few restructuring advisors predict bankruptcies among the large companies, which have successfully de-levered and are cash rich, there is trouble looming for middle-market companies that have high debt levels, especially those that are in the retail, restaurant and media business.
By manipulating their production levels, he and other economists argue, the Saudis have ensured that firms in rich countries have had strong disincentives against holding stocks.
Barack Obama and most Democrats in Congress have long advocated keeping taxes at their current levels for the vast majority of Americans, but allowing them to rise for the rich.
Not only is video performance absolutely superb -- easily beating the competition -- sound quality is another strong point thanks to Nokia's Rich Recording technology, which uses MEMS digital microphones and enables clear, distortion-free audio capture at levels up to 140-145dBs.
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