Bill Gates, number one on the world wealth roster ( see p. 120), pays himself only a trifle.
Cities have always traditionally been the centers of the world's wealth, and the World Bank says that as much as 80 percent of the future economic growth of the developing world will come from its cities.
However, where in the world that wealth comes from will change.
The world's wealthiest took a financial hit last year, but they're on the road to recovery, according to the 2009 World Wealth Report, released June 24 by financial management firm Merrill Lynch in partnership with consulting company Capgemini.
Tim Lee makes the final point that the poorest person in the world has more wealth than the bottom 20%.
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First of all, inequality between rich and poor countries has increased dramatically in the last two decades, with (as James Wolfensohn of the World Bank said) 20% of the world's population controlling 80% of the world's wealth.
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia president Charles Plosser said in Italy Thursday that the central banks of the world cannot create wealth and said central banks do not have the tools to fix the present economic and financial problems in the major industrialized countries.
Software--as silicon etchings, packaged disks or the Web itself--has created most of the new wealth in the world.
India's share of the world's wealth has taken a staggering jump, with a combination of the roaring stock market and the appreciating rupee the springboard.
It entails, among other things, ensuring the just and equitable dispersal of the seabeds' wealth to the world's developing and land-locked nations.
Security Council, and the bulk of the world's wealth, guns and diplomatic clout.
Keeping petrodollars in the United States will reduce our indebtedness to the rest of the world, create wealth and jobs.
However, with the virtual world bitcoin wealth being selectively anonymous and practically untaxable, it may just decide to stay there.
Luxury cars are reporting brisk sales in this part of the world where rising wealth is creating an expanding pool of buyers.
The report's list of fastest growing economies between 2010 and 2050 also gives more credence that the world's wealth is moving toward Asia.
The U.S. accounts for the lion's share of the world's wealth.
Imagine the kinds of meetings that have to go on in the sovereign wealth funds of the world to look to rebalance and hedge their vast portfolios.
The tradeoff worldview would have us choosing to do something meaningful in the world or transfer wealth to enrich ourselves and go to ever greater heights of voracious mass consumption.
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Part of that shoring up is just learning about why Asia-Pacific (putting aside the Japanese internal market in the first half of this year) is leading the world in actual wealth growth.
When their assets are added to those of central banks stuffed with petrodollars, these new investment phenomena are truly the fastest-growing institutionalized wealth in the world.
Pinault said that for 50 years the growth in population and wealth in the world (800 million consumers) was centered in the U.S. and Japan.
Norway, with a population of five million, has taxed the major oil companies heavily and created the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world, now worth more than seven hundred billion dollars, insuring the prosperity of future generations.
Lest such an inquiry be considered a digression from the celebration of wealth that is the World's Billionaires ranking, let me repeat our best reason for keeping such counts: There is a message in the midst of all that money.
The world's past wealth creation is outstripped every generation by innovation, human progress and the rapid growth of the above-subsistence population.
Some now argue that it's a cause of financial instability as the international super-rich shift their wealth around the world, increasing volatility in the price of gold, equities, government debt or basic commodities such as copper and grain.
It is one of the earliest wrecks dating from the beginning of Spanish colonisation and disappeared with a huge cargo of gold and silver along with gems and cultural objects specially collected to show the king of Spain the extent of the wealth of the New World.
Only by taking this step can we ensure that the Government lives within its means and only by ensuring that Government lives within its means can we build the low tax, low debt economy that will be able to compete in the world and help create jobs wealth and opportunity for our people in the future.
The art market is a second derivative of wealth creation in the world.
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This makes it especially sweet to see the world appreciate at least the tip of a wealth of Asian talent.
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