More Chinese will be featured in annual lists of the world s richest people.

No wonder they have started to crowd into the premier league table of the world s rich.

Great inequality, built up over generations, does not become a source of great popular resentment.

The population was predominantly wealthy and upper class, and along with Abadan, the prevalent culture was that of modern Iranian cosmopolitanism.

Children born poor are likely to remain poor children born into affluence are likely to be affluent adults.

Those who had been born landlords, rich farmers, reactionaries, bad elements, and rightists were among the first to be victimized.

It is unconscionable that we should have to continue to live in a world that consists of a permanent coalition of unequals the fabulously rich and the desperately poor.

This system provides unprecedented financial incentives to scientists and entrepreneurs to aggressively develop new technologies and thus become rich.

The super rich had one over riding objective in joining the Bush coalition tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefited the wealthiest households.

But what are the chances of Nathalie Rykiel or the affluent elites of France, or Italy, or the United States adopting those values?

So what happened was, the people who happened to be in the right place at the right time the people who happened to be leading the gang in the mid to late '80s became very, very wealthy.

The small piece of land allocated under the rural household contract system may not make farmers rich, but it serves as a social safety net of last resort.

Mandela devoted much time to fundraising for the ANC, touring North America, Europe and Asia to meet wealthy donors, including former supporters of the apartheid regime.

David Landes likes to tell the story of Nathan Meyer Rothschild, the richest man in the world in the first half of the nineteenth century, dead in his fifties of an infected abscess.

This paint can right here saved the Dutch Boy paint company, making them a fortune. It costs 35 percent more than regular paint because Dutch Boy made a can that people talk about, because it's remarkable.

When the Chinese premier, OPEC heads of state, and the world s richest supermodel all express concern about the dollar, you can be sure we are in for a bumpy ride.

With their enormous cash flow, Russian billionaires are buying sumptuous properties all over the world, and Russia is buying prominent Germans like the former Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, if not the support of Germany as such.

Shortly after its arrival, President Sata publicly exhibited Hichilema s bank statements which showed that he is worth 360 billion ZMK ( 64 million USD), making him one of the richest people in Zambia.

When William II died on 2 August 1100, Robert was on his return journey from the Crusade and was about to marry a wealthy young bride to raise funds to buy back his duchy.

But he was not popular because the public viewed him as a puppet of China and a crony of big developers, particularly Li Ka shing, Hong Kong s richest person.

And so it is not just what's happening to these people whether they're losing weight or gaining weight, or becoming rich or becoming poor, or becoming happy or not becoming happy that affects us it's also the actual architecture of the ties around us.

It is widely assumed that economic migrants, from inside or outside the EU, are mainly poor people out to live off the tax money of the relatively rich. In fact, most of them are not spongers.

But these schemes make firms more profitable by making their suppliers, workers, and customers poorer. Accepting such demands makes the government rightly illegitimate in the eyes of the rest of society, which cherishes higher priorities than redistribution in favor of the already rich.

In short, if the world s rich are stingy today toward our much richer descendants, and if we want to leave our environmental mess to them to deal with, we should be lavish toward the world s poor.

One of the shocking realities in recent years is that America now has almost the lowest degree of social mobility of the high income countries. Children born poor are likely to remain poor children born into affluence are likely to be affluent adults.

Girl 1 We have in the very beginning of the whole game, always we do this we each have a piece of paper we write down our name, our age are we rich, very rich, not rich, poor, medium, wealthy, boyfriends, dogs, pets what else sisters, brothers, and all those.

But an equally fundamental division one that has contributed as much to the ongoing insurrection as sectarian strife and opposition to the American led military occupation is the widening gap between Iraq s rich and poor.

They claimed that scientists were fabricating evidence in order to obtain government research grants a ludicrous accusation, I thought at the time, given that the scientists under attack have devoted their lives to finding the truth, and have certainly not become rich relative to their peers in finance and business.