Bill Gates, number one on the world wealth roster ( see p. 120), pays himself only a trifle.
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.
Business, in a humane world: Wealth is a proxy for value created, not merely for power gained.
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However, with the virtual world bitcoin wealth being selectively anonymous and practically untaxable, it may just decide to stay there.
However, where in the world that wealth comes from will change.
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.
UBS, the most important task is to save its franchise as a world-beating wealth manager.
Security Council, and the bulk of the world's wealth, guns and diplomatic clout.
Tim Lee makes the final point that the poorest person in the world has more wealth than the bottom 20%.
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Keeping petrodollars in the United States will reduce our indebtedness to the rest of the world, create wealth and jobs.
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.
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.
The U.S. accounts for the lion's share of the world's wealth.
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.
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.
Japan is, moreover, a recognisably capitalist country with a wealth of world-class companies.
The world's past wealth creation is outstripped every generation by innovation, human progress and the rapid growth of the above-subsistence population.
Since his adventures, Banks had been busy sending other men out to do as he had done, to discover and seize the world's living wealth.
Thus China's integration into the world economy genuinely creates wealth.
And there is very strong support around the world for governments to distribute wealth more evenly.
The windfall will provide fresh capital to some of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds.
Software--as silicon etchings, packaged disks or the Web itself--has created most of the new wealth in the world.
Why is it that every other major region of the world has amassed significant private wealth, but not Africa?
This is almost certainly true whether you define the poorest person in the world on an income or wealth basis.
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The so-called shadow banking industry, an unregulated and fast-rising world of high-yield wealth-management products and underground lending, also continues to worry investors.
The so-called "shadow banking" industry, an unregulated and fast-growing world of high-yield wealth-management products and underground lending, also continues to worry investors.
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