But it asks questions about how it would do so, it poses challenges to an independent Scotland which it says other countries are facing, and it reflects the fact that public finances - in wealthy and poor, oil-rich and resource-starved - have a nasty habit of requiring uncomfortable choices.
While globalization has increased productivity drastically, and made the wealthy in this country a great deal more wealthy, and the poor in developing countries more wealthy, the vast middle has not seen nearly as many gains.
In follow-up experiments, the researchers asked participants to imagine and write about a hypothetical interaction with someone who was extremely wealthy or extremely poor.
The summit is expected to call for the establishment of a global food fund and see pledges of food aid from wealthy countries to poor nations to ward off food shortages.
In the 1970s, when the territory was still mostly poor, wealthy Chinese families hired local maids.
Then, hand out that money, to very person in the country as a fixed pay from the wealthy, to the poor.
Booth did not use complex statistical models to decide whether streets should be classified as poor or wealthy, and neither does The Economist.
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The assumption that the wealthy care nothing for the poor, and that the poor don't vote.
How many jobs have you ever held that were offered by employers less wealthy than you, or poor?
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The Republic of Korea went from a poor to a wealthy country in just 30 years thanks in part to its investment in skills development of young people.
"London is the only region characterised by high percentages of both breadline poor and asset wealthy households and by a very small, in relative terms, percentage of households that are in the middle, " the report found.
If a candidate spends more time defending tax cuts for the wealthy and saying nothing about the poor, including the growing number of children on the poverty rolls, that candidate would be hard pressed to get my vote.
The recently enacted sequestration cuts will further fuel the disparity between corporate America, the wealthy and middle class, and the poor.
It promised to reduce the gap between the small percentage of wealthy Indians and very large percentage of poor ones, who feel excluded from the economic boom.
He exposed frames of film in two places a wealthy resort community in Florida and a poor Indian reservation in South Dakota and then put his camera through an airport X-ray machine.
In my state of California, the Republican minority has gone to great lengths to insure the wealthy have their incomes protected while the poor, the young, those in school, and the most vulnerable members of society bear almost the entire burden.
Living in Philadelphia and looking at this wealthy generation, all of whom began as poor boys, and you want capital to begin on?
But the agreement turns on its head his repeated argument that we need to give more to the poor and ask more of the wealthy.
But also, I think, people will think, well, I know lots of wealthy women of color and I know lots of poor white women.
He retired a wealthy man in 1940, but 10 years later poor investments had cost him his fortune, forcing him to make a comeback.
These findings suggest that marketers need to understand the similarities as well as differences between the relatively poor in emerging markets and the relatively wealthy in developed economies.
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The changes came about not so much by movements in rates but by the addition of tax credits for the poor and the elimination of exemptions for the wealthy.
On Monday, hundreds of wooden shacks in a wealthy Abidjan suburb were torched by troops, uprooting scores of poor immigrant workers.
They feel that too much attention is being given to the needs of wealthy new residents and too little to the homeless and working poor who have been living there for years.
Many northerners voted for him because he was a Muslim or because most of them are as poor as any southern Nigerian, despite the north's wealthy and powerful upper class.
Recent immigrants and wealthy blacks are thought more deserving of quota favoritism and set-asides than poor whites.
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Davos Man and Woman are not only wealthy but healthy too, which is clearly much better than being sick and poor.
That the problems of a desperately poor malarial country in Africa might be somewhat different from those of wealthy, non-malarial Scandinavia seems not to have occurred to them.
To be sure, these studies are aimed at getting more resources better placed for children in poor families and so cannot easily translate to situations where parents are wealthy.
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