Since current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin became Russia s president in 2000, the country s vast energy wealth has become increasingly concentrated in state hands.

For the first time ever, we have enough wealth concentrated in the hands of few individuals and the technology accessible that will allow us to really drive space exploration.

They produce skin deep democracies in which people have a vote but don t really have a stake, in which wealth is increasingly concentrated and income disparities are harder to breach.

Broadly speaking, the weakest contracts are those that allow wealth and power to be concentrated in the same few hands, while the strongest are built on significant dispersal of both.

He concentrated on his studies.

She concentrated on one thing.

So far, unemployment has become increasingly concentrated in one hemisphere, while income and capital is concentrated in the other.

China might want oil from the Middle East, but those in the Middle East with so much wealth concentrated in so few hands might be more interested in Gucci handbags than in China s mass produced goods.

Agriculture Agricultural production is concentrated on small farms.

Outward FDI from developing countries is highly concentrated.

UNIFIL operations remained concentrated along the Blue Line.

The crisis has affected both concentrated banking systems (for example, the UK and the Netherlands) and non concentrated systems (e.g., the US and Germany).

Given that most of Sudan s oil wealth is concentrated in the South, the management of the oil industry and its revenues after secession is an existential problem for Bashir s regime and its capacity to control his vast and ethnically diverse country.

These were concentrated in the southern part of Finland.

Most of it is concentrated in the southern parts.

Basic assistance is concentrated at regional and district levels.

Improvement appears to be concentrated in Punjab and NWFP.

Traditionally, sovereign risk has been concentrated in emerging market economies.

Instant coffee in a concentrated liquid form is also manufactured.

Norwegian space science activities are concentrated into relatively few areas.

Remaining oil supplies will be concentrated in the volatile Middle East.

Private investment remains limited and concentrated by both country and sector.

To date, reactor construction has been concentrated in the industrial world.

In all developing regions, however, foreign direct investment remained geographically concentrated.

At that time, power was concentrated in a small number of states.

In more concentrated markets, banks tend to offer worse terms to customers.

Even then, the exercises are numerous and heavily concentrated in Central Asia.

The Royal troops concentrated around Paris were dispersed to their frontier garrisons.

He returned to Sudbury in 1748 1749 and concentrated on painting portraits.

This is because the executions have been concentrated in a few states.

We couldn't live in a concentrated way simply because there was no resources.

Oligarchic capitalism exists where power and money are highly concentrated among a few.

With migration to leading regions low, poverty remains concentrated in the lagging regions.

The population is concentrated in the Andean highlands and along the Caribbean coast.

Most of the aquatic life of the bay is concentrated near that region.

The shortage of specialized personnel is obvious, and is concentrated in large centres.

There are few modern retail stores, and these are concentrated in urban areas.

Its main aspects concentrated on the Palestinian presidential elections held on 9 January.

The bank has 38 branches, primarily concentrated in urban and semi urban areas.

Although participation of women on executive boards continues to concentrated in subordinate posts.

Where minorities are concentrated territorially, single member districts may provide sufficient minority representation.

There is also concern that projects are overly concentrated in the Kabul area.

Green Sovereign Wealth

The result is a world in which power is increasingly distributed rather than concentrated.

What was distinctive this time was that the new borrowing was concentrated in housing.